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Word: inamorata (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Claude (Claude Berri) is the little Jewish boy of The Two of Us grown to physical if not emotional maturity. His inamorata Isabelle (Elisabeth Wiener) is with child, but Claude is no hit-and-run villain. Wistful, tentative, he may be unsure of the proper words to say, but he knows enough to do the right thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Truce Is Beauty | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...inamorata, "Childie" McNaught, is a red-cheeked pippin of a girl (Susannah York) with a mind that has stopped and a body that will not quit. Their relationship, on the skids before the film begins, collapses utterly when George learns that she is to be written out of the program. The bearer of the sad tidings is a venomous BBC executive, Mercy Croft (Coral Browne), who doesn't give Childie a second look-she is too busy with the first. As with George, deception is the key to character. Childie belies her name-she has abandoned the illegitimate child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: What Ever Happened to Childie McNaught? | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

...plot, which has all the bite of the blueprint in a model car kit, tells how a car-crazy boy (Darren) and a boy-crazy girl (Tiffin) find happiness at the end of an auto endurance race through Death Valley. As the dragster's inamorata, Pamela learns that falling in love with an "intuitive genius" can be an endurance test in itself. Darren spends so much time pondering gear ratios and reassembling fuel lines that he can scarcely stay awake long enough to endanger a girl's reputation. Of course, he regains consciousness moments before the Big Race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Endurance Test | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

...night, year after year, he pursued his inamorata on the street, into movie theaters, beneath her windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: When the Kissing Had to Stop | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

...trading power in the East did at that point increase. Mr. Smith has, on his own, made the musician, Jack Wilton (Robert Trehy), fall in love with a lady of the court. Queen Elizabeth (Blanche Thebom) ships Wilton off to Turkey to avoid permitting a misalliance with his inamorata Lady Anne (Doris Yarick). There the michievous Sultan (played to perfection by an appropriately ponderous Ezio Flagello) imprisons Jack in order to keep an excellent organ player. A Venetian damsel in distress named Dorina (actually not in a dress at all, but disguised as a janissary, afraid of the tortures...

Author: By Wilson LYMAN Keats, | Title: Command Performance | 11/20/1961 | See Source »

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