Word: colin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knack is that of seduction; how to get it isn't made explicit, but it doesn't hurt to be falsely accused of rape, apparently. It is some time, though, before Colin, a London schoolteacher who has made it with only two girls in as many years--"I started late," he insists--hits upon this expedient. And until then he must suffer Tolen, who is rooming in his house. Blandly arrogant and condescending, Tolen makes his women stand in line, restricts them to just one word in his guest book, and bestows souvenir medallions. He observes of one curvaceous creature...
Into this hotbed of the libido fall Tom and Nancy. Tom hates brown and green so much that he covers every inch of Colin's living room, including the windows, with white paint. Nancy, cloth-capped and wide-eyed, just in from the provinces, starts out looking for the YWCA. But, as she observes when Tom and Colin lift the antique bed on which she is sitting, "I've been picked up, haven...
Married. Lord Charles George William Colin Spencer-Churchill, 25, London insurance broker, tall (6 ft. 6 in.) handsome second son of Sir Winston's cousin the tenth Duke of Marlborough; and Texas Debutante Gillian Spreckels Fuller, 18, daughter of Fort Worth Oilman Andrew Fuller, and great-granddaughter of California Sugar King John D. Spreckels; in London, one year after they met at the Ascot races...
Tolen has The Knack. With a tap on his snare drum, a fillip of his hair, or an rpm of his white cycle he can banish the serneity of any normal giri and transform her into a quivering mass of ungovernable desire. Colin wants to get The knack. He's just a mild-mannered, horny school-teacher who'd be satisfied with one of Tolen's girls. So when Nancy arrives, Colin decides to make his feeble play, with some help from Tom, a crazy Irishman who must paint everything white. Good destroys evil, Colin gets Nancy, and Tolen loses...
...Brooks is an oily-smooth sinister Tolen in narrow trousers, high-heeled boots and dark glasses, cool, suave, and detestable. Michael Crawford and Donal Donnelly play awkward Colin and buck-toothed Tom with childish glee and exuberance, especially when Colin finds a bed far bigger than Tolen's could possibly...