Word: breastless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find that his son and daughter have become neoprimitive natives of swinging England. His daughter (Margaret Linn) is complacently pregnant-by whom, she cannot be sure. His bearded guitar-laden son (Sam Waterston) looks "like a leftover from the Last Supper," and his so-called mistress is a breastless, hipless, bass-voiced androgyne. Ultimately, the general goes his filial foes one better at anarchic nonconformity by growing a beard himself, living in a tree and mastering the guitar. The quality of the humor is as strained as the plot. Ustinov seems to have aped Bernard Shaw without the wit, Neil...
...whereupon the screen flashes a title, silent-movie style: "Gee, I wish my fronts weren't so big. They sure ruin the line of your beads." It is the first of many slices of cutesie-pie proffered by Director George Roy Hill, including innumerable jokes about the restless, breastless flappers, and oh-you-kidding dialogue indicating that "by jingo" and "gotcha" are supposed to be terrif...