Word: kisses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Grasshopper on the Road (Harper & Row; $4.95), by Arnold Lobel, is a picaresque for kids. On his trek, the restless insect meets beetles who carry signs (KISS ME IT'S MORNING), neurotically clean houseflies, worms who bathe in apples, and mosquitoes who follow rules even when they are nonsensical. Like all individualists (and most children), the hero marches to a different summer. Lobel's drawings accompany him with a jaunty cast who have as many legs as a chorus line, and a lot more...
...walks a small man wearing rumpled double-knits, looking nothing like the head of a multi-million dollar operation. He is surrounded by a small coterie of staff assistants businly vying for his attention; we expect one of them to kiss his ring at any moment. A lady emerges to announce--with great pleasure and relish--that Mr. Stanley Kaplan is here in the flesh to welcome us personally...
...occasional touch of country to Washington, but the Government and diplomatic corps have never mothballed their dinner jackets. Still, the abrasions of sexual politics are a distinctly new development in high Government circles. Patricia Harris, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, remarks pointedly: "The President doesn't kiss the male Cabinet members when he sees them." One male member
Despite a few minor plot twists, the movie is pretty predictable, down to the camera angles. The script teems with tired devices. When Corky and Peggy gaze into each other's eyes, kiss, then exchange a long look, a bedroom scene is obviously going to follow -- and indeed, the camera cuts to a pair of naked bodies (or naked backs, anyway) rolling around in soft focus. The structure of Goldman's script is equally transparent; he shows the agent telling the story of Corky's life to a T.V. exec, a clumsy means of providing the audience with background material...
...damsels. At first he takes the warriors for angels, but when he learns they are men like him self, he sets out to find King Arthur, that famous knight maker. Perceval's mother had told him to help ladies in trouble but to expect no more than a kiss, and perhaps a ring, in return. He misreads her advice and, finding a lady lounging happily in her tent, yanks off her ring and steals seven kisses...