Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both proselytes are betrayed by their family background. Young Thompson's mother is taking on with a lodger, and in destroying the lover's symbol of superiority, his car, the lad is badly burned. Fifteen-year-old Shirley (Sarah Miles) has been starved of love by her family; she lets a gentleness on Weir's part toward her desires to learn kindle a puerile passion for him. The passion must be dashed, and the result is an unpleasant trial of the teacher for indecent assault. Acquittal does not save Prometheus's reputation, and Weir is forced to destroy one principle...
...advertisements proclaim "a fifteen-year-old, leading a man to destruction," but the tenor of all this "destruction" is pretty tame. As in so many cases, there is more going on in the theatre than on the screen by way of titillation. Audiences which are sent into paroxysms by angry young man films or the Italian realists may feel edified by Term of Trial; I am inclined to join with Shirley's roommate in a plaintive, "Give me some action...
...unconscious tenants' faces with cold wet towels. Shari came to and remarked: "I blacked out." The firemen had to use a resuscitator on Bob before he came around. At the emergency room of Memphis' Methodist Hospital, where the pair spent four tense days recovering, a doctor said: "Fifteen minutes later would have been too late. They would have been dead...
...four squads, the swimmers will probably have the easiest time of it. The meet against Cornell should be a straightforward victory, extending the Crimson's string of consecutive wins to fifteen. Despite the protestations of coach Bill Brooks that "we take each one as it comes along," the swimming team regards the Cornell meet as a warmup for the crucial clash with powerful Princeton...
Joining Mr. Barton in The Hollow Mockery are Mr. Max Adrian, who fancies he is amusing as an effeminate and disgusting ambassador of Henry VII; Miss Dorothy Tutin, who fancies she is an actress, and proceeds to read a sketch of the Kings of England by the fifteen-year-old Jane Austen as if it were the work of Baby Snooks; and Mr. Paul Hardwick, who is plain enough. Musical interludes are provided by Mr. James Walker, a harpsichordist,--Mr. Barton, luckily, seems to have been unable to devise a way of making the harpsichord funny--and by three gentlemen...