Word: boors
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...inhabit the past and the present, and those who inhabit no time at all. There is Amanda Wingfield, a faded Mississippi belle stranded in the slums of St. Louis who is trying desperately to recapture the dead world of the Delta; Jim O'Connor, the gentleman caller, an engaging boor who represents the present Amanda is avoiding; Tom, Amanda's son, torn between love for his mother and sister and the desire to escape into the living world around him; and Laura, Amanda's daughter, a shy and delicately beautiful cripple who can cope with no world but that...
From Russia with Love includes a healthy serving of such details, but now they are bound up in situations. For example, Bond recognizes a SPECTRE agent when the boor orders red wine with fish. The motorboat chase gains tremendously when an overhead shot reveals several SPECTRE boats closing in on Bond's boat from all directions. In this way the thrill of the speedboat becomes frosting rather than the cake itself...
...theme, he seems perversely unable or unwilling to settle accounts with the chambermaid, his pivotal character. She spurns her master, loves the murdered child, seduces the sadistic Joseph, promises to marry him, turns him over to the gendarmes with some show of regret, and finally marries the boor next door. Miraculously, Actress Moreau performs a contradictory role with an air of wry and knowing detachment, as if she were privy to soul-deep secrets that even the best directors can only guess...
...Charles Snow's photo in a shaggy, angular Russian coat and called it a "special Russian academic garb" [Oct. 30]. You were wrong. It is the well-known Caucasian burka (pronounced boor-kah), an everyday, all-purpose sleeveless coat originated by the Circassians, Chechens and other mountaineers of the northern Caucasus. In October 1963, Sir Charles visited Russia to receive from the University of Rostov an honorary doctorate of philological sciences, and to be Mikhail Sholokhov's personal guest. It must have been on that occasion that Sir Charles wore the burka as a bit of local color...
...California's High Sierra country fills the wide screen with some breathtaking acreage that no TV oat opera can duplicate. Actor Ebsen seems an authentic embodiment of covered wagon grit. And though Dullea's bad boy characterization scarcely conceals that he is easily redeemable-a sort of boor next door-his warm, fresh, quietly persuasive scenes with Actress Nettleton recall his vivid debut in David and Lisa, and enhance both actors' reputations as a pair of arresting young talents for whom better movies ought to be made...