Word: damsel
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...state,/ Though it may come too late,/ I had not meant to go quite this far.' " An Asimovian retort goes: "There is something about satyriasis/ That arouses psychiatrists' biases,/ But we're both very pleased/ We're in this way diseased/ As the damsel who's waiting to try us is." Thus: Though their poetry centers on mating,/ Both men show very few signs of dating./ Still their comedy's salty/ And their taste somewhat faulty,/ So their book gets a solid X rating...
Even the real 1953 Kismet probably could not stand up in 1978. A simple damsel (Melba Moore) with a poetic thief for a father (Ira Hawkins) ascends, through incredible accidents, to become the bride of the king of the realm (Gilbert Price) despite the machinations of the Wazir
...exclusivity, and delight in sheer expense. It is doubtful that any but the pretentious rich would jump for joy the way a male model does in one ad--over nine pairs of new shoes in a full page spread. And there are the ubiquitous pictures of a Calvin Klein damsel in satiny "at-home" clothes or a Matisse-like line drawing publicizing Yves St. Laurent's stylish scraps...
Reynolds is soon offering aid and comfort to a damsel in distress. She is Sally Field, playing an industrial-show dancer who has deserted a yokel groom on their wedding day. He is a hopeless dummy, but his dad is not. His dad is, in fact, Jackie Gleason, portraying Buford T. Justice, a self-advertising legend among backwoods peace officers. He is determined to recapture Field for his boy. There is an endless chase, funnily staged by Needham. With the help of many CB friends, girl and brew are safely delivered from evil...
...Teutonic scheme for dragging troops in barges to England by night, Riddle's scenes carry remarkable conviction. One reason is Childers' extraordinary affection for his main characters, both the worldly Carruthers and Davies, whom Carruthers has always patronized but comes to admire. There is, of course, a damsel in distress - Clara, whose Englishness in the midst of Germans gives away the plot a bit early. But who cares? A man would have to be a brutish lout not to fall for Clara, with her "brown, firm hand - no, not so very small, my sentimental reader...