Word: cad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eventually, she trades in her commentator for a late-model cad (Laurence Harvey) from the advertising world, wins modest renown as "the Happiness Girl," promoting "chocolates with fairy-tale centers." Her own fairy tale ends, many escapades later, when she finds ruin at the top as the wife of a wealthy Italian nobleman. Mistress of a sprawling palazzo, she endures boredom, fame, and neglect-despising the suffocating luxury of a milieu that has nurtured and, at last, enslaved...
Since his first film break in Private's Progress, he has played virtually every Anglo-Saxon subspecies from crook to cad, fop to daredevil. He does most of his own stunts, trembling with fear...
...every inch a hero of our time," he also notes that "insofar as one can focus on so shadowy and unreal a character, he is utterly despicable: obsequious to his superiors, pretentious in his tastes, callous and brutal in his ways, with strong undertones of sadism, and an unspeakable cad in his relations with women, toward whom sexual appetite represents the only approach...
...Dishy) sweet-and-sour-talks a guileless fashion illustrator (Liza Minnelli) into carrying a card. When she surprises him with a half-undressed, wholly unabashed, free-love enterpriser (Cathryn Damon) and discovers that the chip on his shoulder is his head, she rips up both card and cad...
...cockney Casanova, Alfie leaves behind him a trail of broken hearts and gravid wombs. If worse comes to worst, Alfie is game to arrange an abortion, though not quite up to paying for it. In the lost lingo of yesteryear, Alfie is a bit of a cad, and it might follow from this that he is repellent. Quite the contrary. Terence Stamp plays him with enormously ingratiating charm, zest and skill. More important, Playwright Naughton has netted a real character, and reality exonerates itself in the theater, turning moralizing attitudes into carping ghosts at a feast...