Word: golondrina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prude (Geraldine Page), a Mississippi parson's daughter who as she approaches her 30th year, finds herself unmarried; still pretty in a dim way but getting a bit odd and starchy; prone to nervous flutters of the heart; apt to sleep ill of nights; liable to warble La Golondrina at charity bazaars; beginning to resent her slavery to a kleptomaniac mother (Una Merkel) who is glad to be mad; beginning to be desperate...
...Many topflight restaurants in raffish neighborhoods lose points to stuffier places in more conventional surroundings. Chasen's rates its four stars more for its pressagentry than its food. On the other hand, the guide has also dug up many outstanding out-of-the-way spots, including Casa la Golondrina in Los Angeles, Spenger's Fish Grotto in Berkeley, and Bimbo's 365 Theatre Restaurant in San Francisco, starred twice by a taster whose appreciation for his crab bella vista was perhaps enhanced by the platoon of undraped chorines onstage. (The guide discreetly lists this as "elaborate entertainment...