Word: yearning
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...Paolozzi, whose daughter Cristina gave the whole family a certain notoriety by posing nude and chest-high for Harper's Bazaar. Contessa Wally Castelbarco, Toscanini's daughter, "wouldn't miss it for anything," and presides over Gian Carlo's elegant collection of rival hostesses who yearn to be his hostesses during the season...
...when he has to reason maniacally: "There'd be a bloomin' lot more of this if enough people had the time and money." His fixed stare and halting accents never quite cancel out the suspicion that he is just the sort of menace a comely bird might yearn to be imprisoned by-a vaguely Heathcliffian introvert reviving a Brontë romance in modern dress. Thus Actress Eggar dominates the film, not by better acting but by seeming hand-in-glove with her role. Plucky, tenacious, she proceeds moment by moment from incredulity to seductiveness to violence...
...that lured all three groups toward Atlanta were, in a way, the same that impelled Sherman. Atlanta is the hub of the South; it has fine transportation (good roads, superb air service), and is an important center of population. Within a 200-mile radius live 10 million folks who yearn for major league sport. The closest baseball team of significance is the Cincinnati Reds, 450 miles away; the nearest pro football is in St. Louis, 550 miles away. The city's handsome new stadium seats 51,000 for baseball, 57,000 for football. And that is just the beginning...
...sophisticated enough to know just where she wants to go. After next year it's bye-bye Dick Van Dyke. "I would like to be the next Doris Day," she reveals intensely. That may sound like the itsy-pooiest, but it's an understandable yearn for America's favorite TV housewife...
...Argentina's restless citizens. Since taking office 17 months ago, Illia has allowed the debts, wages, prices and everything else to soar, while hoping that the basically rich wheat-and-beef economy would somehow work itself out of trouble. It has not, and many Argentines, searching for leadership, yearn for the days when El Lider was in power...