Word: guileless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...green vegetables, and doilies on the table..."; Kolenkhov, the emigre ballet master, deadpans. "She is a great woman, the Grand Duchess. Her cousin was the Czar of Russia, and today she is waitress in Child's Restaurant. Columbus Circle." Unadulterated camp is screamingly funny just because it is so guileless. Humor is closely bound to context, and an amusing line in 1936 becomes a hilarious one in 1970, precisely because the time warp can kleig-light meanings only implicit in the original...
...appeared in nine plays and made 73 films that have grossed more than $190 million. On Broadway this spring, during ten successful weeks, he re-created his classic portrayal of Elwood P. Dowd, the bibulous dreamer whose pal was an imaginary rabbit named Harvey. But the role of the guileless cowboy caught in a web of goodnatured immorality is as much a part of the Stewart myth as the tremulous, pleasantly nasal accent that has made him the world's most imitated actor this side of James Cagney...
...nervous bridegroom brings her to life, and love is reborn in a cold climate. The cast of characters, Burgess has explained, is drawn fondly from stock theatrical figures: "The boneheaded gold-hearted country squire in plus fours, the pert and resourceful servant, the grim but reliable chatelaine, the sweet guileless young lovers, the comic Anglican clergyman." Only a writer who can bring such scarecrows to life would be willing to proclaim, let alone admit, that his characters come out of a fusty stage wardrobe. In The Eve of Saint Venus, this miracle is performed...
...latest novel, the most ambitious since A Severed Head, concerns two married couples-one heterosexual, one homosexual. Rupert and Hilda are toasting 20 years of guileless union; Axel and Simon, who is Rupert's younger brother, have just passed their third year of wary connubiality...