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Word: closets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oise Dorléac) he has recently wed. She lusts for excitement, and suddenly she gets it. A mobster on the lam (Lionel Slander) staggers into the castle one fine day and institutes a nerve-shredding reign of terror: flashes his firearms, slashes the phone wires, crashes the liquor closet, mashes the host's nose, lashes the wife's bottom, smashes the family Jag, and generally behaves like the sort of fire-breathing, tear-dropping dragon who traditionally inhabits a medieval castle and wonders wistfully, as he adds another visitor to the three-story bone-pile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Razor-Edged Slapstick | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...spread to adjoining rooms. By ten, the firemen were coiling the hose and beginning to leave, and people started to filter back into the entry. Damage in G-41 was con fined to the furniture, smoke blackening water stains, and a small charred strip up one side of a closet door...

Author: By George R. Merriam, | Title: Cigarette Kindles K-House Mattress; Firemen Quell Blaze Amidst Cheers | 11/1/1966 | See Source »

...technically some sort of soldier, but as he explains early, "I am a victim, not a soldier." A very ignominious victim he is, unable even to get himself captured with the rest of his surrendering battalion. He was left behind because, in terror, he had hidden in a closet. An enemy soldier consents to take him prisoner, but then steals his spectacles, thus further cutting him off from the world, and forgets him. Here cowardice becomes the better part of valor. The hero takes refuge in an abandoned greenhouse near the headquarters of an enemy regiment. He sits in plain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Last Gardener | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

Bang! Bang! You're Dead! Tony Randall whirls just in time to see a chap fall out of a closet. The chap lies very still, and Tony notices a large dagger stuck between his shoulder blades. Eyes narrowed, Tony thinks fast, then offers his analysis of the situation: "There's been some foul play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hug-Her-Mug-Her in Morocco | 9/16/1966 | See Source »

...audience can readily see, Tony knows a thing or two-maybe even three. He knows, for example, that Senta Berger, who plays the girl with a corpse in her closet, is an even tastier dish than the Christmas sandwich her screen name suggests. Licking his lips, Tony agrees to "take care of the body"-he's referring to the victim's but he's thinking of the heroine's. Both present problems, and before the problems are solved, poor Tony and Senta have been pursued through some of the finest scenery in Morocco by a couple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hug-Her-Mug-Her in Morocco | 9/16/1966 | See Source »

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