Word: callow
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...journal that traces the origins of that choice has long since disappeared. But in 1960, a grandniece of Flaubert's produced a copy that she had transcribed years before. This first English translation by Flaubert Scholar Francis Steegmuller makes it clear once more that even in his callow teens Flaubert was headed for literary greatness...
LOVES OF A BLONDE. Slight but abrim with humorous insights, this delightful Czech comedy observes what happens when a pudding-faced pretty from a small town succumbs to a callow young piano player and follows him to his petit-bourgeois home in Prague...
...outstanding hit of this year's New York Film Festival, is a delightful Czech comedy written and directed by 34-year-old Miloś Forman. Slight but abrim with humorous insights, Blonde observes what happens when a pudding-faced pretty from a small town succumbs to a callow young piano player and follows him to his home in Prague...
...with other unfortunates in a shoe-factory town where the girls outnumber the boys 16 to 1. To boost morale and expedite production, the factory manager gets some foot-slogging soldiers assigned to the area, most of them doggy, dumpy and married. The blonde succumbs by default to a callow young piano player (Vladimír Pucholt) who has all but forgotten her when she shows up, a week or so later, at his parents' apartment in Prague...
...sexy, vulgar, pungent, and yet achieves moments of astonishing tenderness. Only during sustained eruptions does she lapse into monotony, or look like an actress play-acting animosity instead of feeling it. As the ambitious young prof whose blueprint for success includes "plowing a few pertinent wives," George Segal exudes callow opportunism assuredly. And Broadway's Sandy Dennis slyly interprets Segal's child bride as a sickly amoeba struggling to assert herself among dragons...