Word: ladybug
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...When she was two, her Negro nurse landsaked, "Lawd, she's purty as a ladybird," and the name stuck. A ladybird, as it is called in the Southwest, is not a bird at all, but a black-dotted little beetle, otherwise known as a ladybug...
...Ladybug Ladybug. May 32, 1964. Russia and the U.S. stand eye to eye, missile to missile. In a small American town, a secretary sits in the office of an elementary school and wonders nervously what millions of ordinary people are wondering that day: Will some madman push the panic button? And if he does will the bomb fall on-ZZZRRRZZZRRRZZZRRRZZZRRR...
...same statement might be made to anyone who wants to see this movie. Ladybug is the second picture put together by Scenarist Eleanor and Director Frank Perry, the husband-and-wife team whose first picture, David and Lisa, was the best movie made in the U.S. last year. But this time the Perrys have plonked. Ladybug just crawls along for 81 minutes and never decides where it is going. The movie aims to be a thriller with a moral: it merely achieves a puerile apocalypse...