Word: churlish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Notorious Landlady gives Jack Lemmon the chance to show what a fine funnyman he is in a playful mystery-comedy set in London. Kim Novak is delectably Kim Novak, and it would be churlish to ask for anything more...
...Notorious Landlady gives Jack Lemmon the chance to show what a fine funnyman he is in a playful mystery-comedy set in London. Kim Novak is delectably Kim Novak, and it would be churlish to ask for anything more...
Their differences are almost too neatly balanced: he reads Edmund Burke, she William Morris: his creed is Responsibility and Self-Reliance. hers is that Socialism and Weakness make Right. Confronted, for instance, with that troglodytic species, the Manhattan bus driver, he remarks that bus drivers in Xew York are churlish savages, which is true, and she replies that they are working men whose low pay is small compensation for a hellish job-also true...