Word: guileless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, the director's overall interpretation of Two Gentlemen as a light-hearted, guileless pastoral undercuts the good performances by imposing shallowness on the production. When even the senex irotus figures chase after serving maids the integrity of the play gets undermined and the whole thing tends toward farce...
...Carter went to Peking. Summit meetings are more meaningful for a U.S. President if he has seen something of the other man's country. Even after 200 years of organized history, U.S. Presidents, who often come out of the fields or the Rotary halls, tend to be more guileless than their counterparts, who frequently are professional rulers. Also, the U.S. has so much more of almost everything than the country of any visitor that it is difficult for a President to assess the promises being made and to understand the motivations of his visitors...
...first I just needed a job," Abbott said. "I was more of a guileless fool than anything. My friend Man Ray ran a portrait studio in Paris and wanted an assistant," she added...
Steinbrenner, money or no, is the worst thing to happen to the Yankees since Horace Clarke. He is a seemingly guileless man, someone who thinks that a lot of whip-out entitles him to say whatever he wants and do whatever he wants, no matter how it affects anyone around him--including, in this case, his own ballclub. At the same time that he insisted Martin was his manager, he constantly criticized both the club and the manager, yelling at players and at Martin and even insisting on his own lineups, anything to make Martin feel unwelcome...
...convey's Pomme's unique charm through a crooked smile, a flash of the eyes, or a sudden grimace. Shyly licking clean a spoon of chocolate ice cream when she meets Francois, Huppert is as absorbed in the eating as she is in the flirting--her Pomme is guileless. The only flaw in the performance must be attributed to a weakness in the script: although Huppert is a convincingly distraught Pomme at the end of the film, it's difficult to believe she's the same Pomme that has appeared throughout the rest of The Lacemaker...