Word: lasse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flagellatingly funny first play by Novelist Bruce Jay Friedman about an American screwball whose wife runs off with a Negro during a Riviera holiday. Jerry Orbach is jokingly brilliant as he indiscriminately sprays comic vitriol at countless pet hates. Brenda Smiley is a wriggly delight as a lass with a mini-mind and a Proustian remembrance of flings past...
...Chippendale sideboard. They are Gabriel Oak (Alan Bates), an impoverished sheepman; Boldwood (Peter Finch), a strange, eroded landowner of whom people whisper, warns Bathsheba's servant girl, that "he has no passionate parts"; and Troy (Terence Stamp), a seducer-soldier who has his way with any lass who meets his come-hither eyes...
October, when all the neighbors gathered to press apples and sample the vintage. Hogs and ducks and dogs all had their role, but center stage went to a pretty barefoot lass-in the words of a folk song Mount undoubtedly knew -"sucking cider through a straw...
That accounts for Bus's discomfiture the day when he was 15 and a lass named Ethel crewed for him in a nip-and-tuck race. "The finish was so close I couldn't tell who had won," Bus remembers. "The other fellow called over to the committee boat to find out the results, but I couldn't hear what they told him. So I yelled 'Nice race!' And when he answered Thank you,' I assumed he had won. Next thing I knew, Ethel was standing up, shaking her fist at the committee boat...
...success is all the more remarkable because it is virtually plotless. A suburban husband (Walter Matthau) decides that the grass is greener and the lass keener in the other fellow's backyard. A colleague with a wandering eye (Robert Morse) nominates himself as Matthau's instructor in the arcane rules of high-infidelity. Like most modern teachers, Morse goes in for visual aids: every time he makes a pedantic point the screen lights up with a lively sketch from life, featuring 13 stars in cameo roles as "technical advisers...