Word: kissing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their passions, crystallized by a stolen kiss in the middle of a poppy field, are initially quashed by Lucy's rather repressed chaperone/cousin, Charlotte Bartlett (Maggie Smith), who regards the kiss as nothing less than a violation of Lucy's honor--as well as a stain upon her own reputation as Lucy's escort...
...these--at least they seem trivial within the realm of modern life--would be enough to sustain the film. But somehow, they do. Director James Ivory is so successful at creating the atmosphere of upper-class Victorian England that the viewer never challenges the mores of Edwardian society. A kiss, so commonplace today, is presented as the logical grounds upon which one should decide on one's life mate...
Still more scandalous! Young George Emerson, also a resident of the Pensione Bertolini in Florence, steals a kiss from her when they are out on an innocent picnic. And then does it again after a game of lawn tennis when they are back in England, where the climate is supposed to dampen such ardor. And what about Cecil Vyse, George? He may be a silly prig, but Lucy Honeychurch is now engaged to him. Have you forgotten the gentleman's code...
...coming almost directly from the boat shed to finish second in the series. An entry sponsored by the French photo processing company Kis also broke new ground of a sort, winning special permission from rule-makers to hoist a spinnaker emblazoned with its lead entry's racy name: French Kiss. She came in fifth...
Moreover, Goldman sees a late entry into the race as an advantage. "You don't want to be the expected. Hart's kiss of death is being the front-runner. Mondale was the front-runner and he emerged so beaten and battered that he was dead before the election was over...