Word: girlfriend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cinematic stylization. Pinter command of language, though, transcends Losey's sense of style, and Losey does not always get a firm grip on the subtle and elusive screenplay. Often, the ideas are better on paper than they are in the finished film (Dirk Bogarde's liaison with ex-girlfriend Delphine Seyrig), and Accident falls flattest when Losey injects familiar notes of high Baroque into Pinter's version of the groves of academe. In fact, Losey is more comfortable with high baroque; Eva and Modesty Blaise, though self-conscious and dramatically weak, come close to Losey at his strongest and most...
...monstrous brother Jonathan is capable if monotonous; Jim Thomason as his plastic surgeon sidekick is also competent and sometimes quite good. John Lewis doesn't add much to the part of brother Teddy (who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt), while Judith Anderson is strong as Elaine, Mortimer's girlfriend...
...just what the hell they were doing waiting to be bashed in the head. "I didn't come here to do this," one boy announced before surrendering his front-line position. A paratrooper immediately moved up and filled his place. "Is it worth it?" one boy asked after his girlfriend had been abducted--no one had an answer...
Baird was interrupted by the phone. "OK now, one thing at a time. Is it your wife or your girlfriend -- your girlfriend. I can't help you by phone. Where are you calling from? Western Reserve University in Cleveland. And your girl? She's in Portland. Can you get down here in the next few days? No, I must see the girl in person. I want to make sure this is what she wants. Now get her down to Boston by Tuesday, then. I'll give you my number. Tell her to call when she arrives here...
...objections to such far-reaching parietal changes are by now familiar. Roommates, it is argued, will face cooperation problems they've never had before. A steady girlfriend could become a crisis. Additional noise on weeknights could disturb people studying in their rooms. And finally, increased parietals risk another round in Harvard's now-legendary sex scandal...