Word: coltish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young giraffes, in coltish mood, cross necks as men cross swords, and duel off their excess energy...
...based on a 1923 novel by Colette called Le Blé en Herbe. The typically Colettish plot: a 16-year-old boy named Phil (Pierre-Michel Beck) and his mother share a summer home on the Brittany beach with 15-year-old Vinca (Nicole Berger) and her family. The coltish youngsters love their summer lives, although, as they emerge from childhood, they begin to feel the prickly pain of petty jealousies. Into Phil's, life there comes a mature woman (Edwige Feuillère) who at length welcomes him, curious, experimental and bold, to her bed. Having taught...
Inwardly, John X was not feeling so well. He said he was slipping-not doing as much work as he used to, and not doing it so well. He fretted about finances. He got so "nervous" that he could not stand the coltish antics of his younger children. Every trip on the rachitic Long Island Rail Road, every decision in the office or at home tied him up in knots...