Word: grecian
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...fill out the boss's income-tax form, what to do when his wife's checkbook doesn't balance, whom to notify when he dies. ¶How to dress in the office ("Grecian sandals are not appropriate"). ¶How to begin a letter to the Lord Chief Justice of England ("My dear Lord Chief Justice"), and to the Commissioners of the City of Buffalo ("Sirs"). ¶ How to brush off a begging letter to the boss ("I wish I could, but I can't. I have come to the sad conclusion that I am carrying...
Jupiter's philandering is the theme of "Out of This World." The immediate object of his desire is a young American girl named Holen, the newly-wed wife of a magazine writer. On his father's orders, Mercury brings the bride and groom to a Grecian inn near Mt. Olympus, where Jupiter goes to work. By disguising himself as her husband, he finally seduces the young lady in what may be called a furious first-act climax...
...which might well be revived now. David Burns is also a pleasure to watch as Niki Skolianos, formerly of South Chicago, who operates the inn and a poppy plantation on the side. Other praiseworthy performers are William Redfield as Mercury and Barbara Ashley as a Chloe, a Grecian lass. William Eythe and Priscilla Gilette, as the American newlyweds are pleasant but not especially brilliant...
...mobbed as a scab by her fellow workers; Gassmann is impaled on a meat hook during a fight in a butcher shop. Director Giuseppe de Santis gets a sweaty authenticity into his scenes in the barracks and fields, and devotes a lot of deserved footage to Silvana's Grecian profile and womanly body...
...devotion to duty written all over his young face, looked up at an overweight nude (see cut). As a statesman turned his frock-coated back, a nameless admiral, whose neck, broken in transit, gave him more the look of a fey midshipman, cast a come-hither glance at a Grecian faun...