Word: undershirt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book, Lord Moran shows Churchill, clad only in a silk undershirt, trying desperately to plug up the drafts in an unheated airplane ("On his hands and knees, he cut a quaint figure with his big, bare, white bottom"). He reveals that Churchill suffered a mild heart attack while on a visit to the U.S. in December of 1941-and that he kept it a secret, even from Churchill himself. Reason: the war was going badly, and "I felt that the effect of announcing that the P.M. had had a heart attack could only be disastrous...
...looks like an Alabama sheriff--all 300 pounds of him--as he reclines on the divan of the Leverett House Guest Suite, his wrinkled shirt unbuttoned, his huge belly rippling under his undershirt...
...reached when the lovers leave for a holiday in Italy, abandoning the sexually repressed girl to her fantasies. And never has the inch-by-inch descent into total madness been more startlingly recreated on film. Slowly, Polanski assembles the fragments of a nightmare mosaic. A man's undershirt, a razor and a skinned rabbit on a platter become objects of dread. An oppressive silence is broken only by the buzzing of flies, dripping water, a ticking clock. Rooms change shape, the mere flip of a light switch creates fissures in the walls, a phantom ravisher begins to stalk...
...rejects another suitor to fulfill what she sees as her duty, but cannot admit that Ramiro attracts her. Secretly she pores, moist-lipped and breathless, over a packet of impulsive love letters he wrote to her sister years earlier, yet is offended when the man himself appears in his undershirt looking flagrantly virile. When Ramiro proposes to her, she spurns his suggestion as "distasteful." When he rashly tries to force himself upon her one morning, she flees to her confessor, a plain-spoken priest who advises Tula to stop being proud and foolish: "You do his laundry, you make...
...guerrillas, making the plains their stronghold. Soon killing became an end in itself, sadistic and without cause. Some machete-wielding fighters specialized in the franela cut, in which the victim's head was sheared from his body with an incision resembling the circular neckline of a flannel undershirt; others preferred the cor bat a -one slice across the throat, through which the victim's tongue was pulled, to look like a necktie. With the grim slogan of "Leave no seed," children were murdered, men emasculated, pregnant women cut open...