Word: cactuses
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...CACTUS FLOWER. Adapter-Director Abe Burrows gives a fast spin to a French sex farce that sets a reluctantly spinsterish nurse, a determined roué of a dentist, and his beatnik mistress in a romantic whirl. Lauren Bacall is appropriately prickly as a late-blooming lovely...
...knew it was somewhere under Tuscany. For Malcolm Lowry, a 20th century mystic, it lay under the volcano that looks down on Cuernavaca in Mexico and inside a bottle of mescal, a drink as hallucinatory, it seems, as mescaline, a drug which is also derived from the maguey cactus...
...CACTUS FLOWER is a French farce seasoned to U.S. tastes by Adapter-Director Abe Burrows and served with unerring timing by a well-chosen cast. Lauren Bacall is drolly dry as a spinsterish nurse with a voice that would intimidate gangrene, and Barry Nelson is convincingly mock-innocent as a dentist with a master's degree in bachelorhood...
...wife has a boy friend whom she wishes to marry. This makes Vaccaro extravagantly solicitous: she must meet Bacall's supposed lover and see if he is a good sort. By the time the fictional couples are locked on a discotheque floor in the steely bonds of subterfuge, Cactus Flower is a prickly web of deceit. Inevitably, Bacall kicks over the old-maidenly traces and turns into a bewitching torso-twisting temptress, while the dentist drops his dentures...
...Cactus Flower is beguiling rather than robust. It skips a comic beat now and again, but it is watch-proof, an amusing way of forgetting time and not merely killing...