Word: enlivens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This scene, or something like it, expresses what is obviously a widespread current sex fantasy. Every so often, the movie business feels the need to create a new character-part joke, part sex bomb, seducible, available, palpable-to enliven the daydreams of the American male. The phase is familiar, and Raquel Welch is going through it. "People think of me as some zaftig lady with two stereo nose cones staring everyone in the face," she admits. "The American idea of sex is two outsized mammary glands...
...whose ideas have won out. A giant whirlpool froths and roars in the entrance plaza. Arriving cars will be whisked up a ramp to a parking wing, while guests register in the vast lobby. Most of the hotel, inside and out, is finished in rough white plaster; art works enliven public places, and there are whole walls painted in fierce pink, yellow or purple-all good Mexican colors. The bedrooms are unusually large -some 23 ft. by 14 ft.-and the corridors are 10 ft. wide...
...seconding speeches even for favorite-son candidates. All the Republican National Committee had really done was to delay the proceedings until prime time and to limit the seconding speeches for candidates to five minutes. The net works found themselves reporting a spectacle whose script they were basically powerless to enliven. As NBC's John Chancellor noted in retrospect: "Conventions were structured and their main patterns made up when people got their information from newspapers. Today we are seeing something that was made for a newspaper age that has survived into...
...Senate Judiciary Committee does not often enliven its deliberations with erotica. The opportunity arose, improbably enough, during its hearings on the nomination of Associate Justice Abe Fortas as Chief Justice of the United States...
...protocol, and his ten-minute audience with Pope Paul VI last week-the third Pope to receive him-was properly decorous. His Holiness presented Louis and Vibraphonist Lionel Hampton with medals. The jazzmen responded with a folio of Michelangelo drawings and a couple of autographed recordings-which ought to enliven the Vatican's record library...