Word: conceited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being wise. When Woodward announces that she has preserved her beauty as a sacred obligation to her public, Newman reveals that she has had a dozen face-lifts and is so full of wax that she doesn't dare get close to a fireplace. Newman's funniest conceit, in every sense, is an idea to package frozen "Celebrity Seed" so that every woman in America can have a baby by her favorite actor, singer, TV panelist, "or in certain isolated instances, dress designer." That's what Baby needs -a playwright father...
...Clov, Nagg, and Nell (the last two spend the entire evening in barrels) perform against a backdrop of webbed string, barrels, one chair and a ladder. The play itself describes the collapse of blind Hamm's strange world. The cause of the disaster, we gradually understand, is Hamm's conceit. He is, as his name suggests, the abstraction of Actor whose solipsism has reduced his world to a shelter-like setting of old age (his barreled parents, Nagg and Nell) and crippled youth (Clov, who limps...
HALLELUJAH THE HILLS. Vermont is the setting for the first surrealist camping trip in history-a hilarious conceit by one of the U.S.'s "new cinema" directors, Adolfas Mekas, who keeps his cast racing from pratfall to parody...
...bitterly regretted ever having written it, confessing that he did it chiefly because he needed the money. But even before he finished the last chapter, he was suffering from brief spasms of self-knowledge. "Every idiot who has ever met me," he wrote, "talks of my extraordinary conceit. Perhaps, since my revelation of Shakespeare, I have taken myself too seriously...
...round collar and benevolent simper, and makes him a vicar. Sellers gets better and better even if his movies do not. Cinema spoof British-style keeps searching farther and wider for ideas, and audiences have only to consult the credits for proof: this film was based on a conceit of that self-ordained iconoclast, Malcolm Muggeridge...