Word: fooling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sooner cuckold a husband than look at one. Naturally, Horner spends the rest of the play leaping in and out of bed after he informs the eager wives of his secret. The country wife of the title is married to a retired "whoremaster," Pinchwife. He believes in marrying a fool so as to avoid being fooled, but he too is duped by Horner. Pinchwife's jealous attempts to keep his wife shut away from the temptations of the town prove ineffectual in deterring his wife's simple-minded quest for a good time. Meanwhile, there are all sorts of subplots...
...these "noble" people are sex and greed, made vulga by the artificial gentility which tries to hide them from view. What makes the country wife so refreshing is her total lack of artifice and her good-hearted gusto for sex and fun. Yet she too is a fool, just as Pinchwife and Sir Fidget are fools, just as the Ladies Fidget and Squeamish are hypocrites. There is no one at all who is admirable in the play, unless it be Alithea, but she is no innocent herself, deftly playing one suitor against another...
...enrich the dialogue with believers." But the most important, said Népszabadság, was that knowing the Bible "can in fact strengthen official ideology." The editorial did not explain how, but its author's own scriptural wanderings presumably had not included Psalm 14, which begins: "The fool hath said in his heart, there...
...detective working on the biggest case in France. So Antoine's romantic pursuit is frustrated by Lise's continual disappearance into black cars full of unfriendly-looking men. He can't figure it out, and--in perhaps the best scene of the film--makes a complete fool of himself by entering into a sarcastic diatribe against the police while riding with Lise and her unknown law-enforcement buddies...
...exact opposite of a gently provocative Diane Keaton, much more like a latter-day Judy Holliday (but brassier). Cannon downright dares to be vulgar. Says Buck Henry, co-director (with Beatty) of Heaven Can Wait: "She's successful because she's not afraid to make a fool of herself...