Word: frightful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Without evincing any fright...
...Stage fright in front of 20,000 people wasn't a problem either. "I didn't have much time to get nervous," said Shevlin. "I only found out I was going in two or three minutes in advance...
...represented as a powerful animal. In Greenleaf, the story of an old woman obsessed by hate, a mad bull stands surrogate for divine vengeance-or perhaps for divine love? "The black, heavy shadow tossed its head several times and then bounded forward. Mrs. May remained perfectly still, not in fright, but in a freezing unbelief. She stared at the violent black streak bounding toward her as if she could not decide what his intention was, and the bull had buried his head in her lap, like a wild, tormented lover, before her expression changed. One of his horns sank until...
...grandfather is the peppery and frustrated duplicate of the grandmother in Edward Albee's The Sandbox. The silent father is a variation on Albee's laconic, spiritless father in The American Dream. Mother is the voracious woman of Arthur Kopit's Oh Dad, Poor Dad, in fright wigs a la Tiny Alice. Lakme wears the little-girl dresses that the sex-hungry baby sitter wore in Oh Dad; Sigfrid half chokes her to death, as the boy in that play strangled the baby sitter. And the mortal baiting of the homosexual in Bump follows the cruelly bantering...
...plot collapses around Shirley MacLaine, cast as a girl reporter who infiltrates the seraglio of King Fawz (Peter Ustinov) looking for a lewd scoop and discovers the missing Goldfarb (Richard Crenna) instead. One night, summoned to Fawz for fondling, Shirley rubs down with garlic, dons a fright wig, blacks out her teeth, stuffs upholstery under her skirts and bounces onto the sheik's bed screeching: "Come on, honey, ain't you gonna sing me a dirty song?" He doesn't, but if he did, it would be one of the movie's lesser offenses against taste...