Word: leer
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...Hollywood and Manhattan were already spreading the word that John Goldfarb had handily outFoxed itself long before the roar from South Bend. It is not simply a bad movie; it is a truly breathtaking display of tastelessness, ineptitude and wretched humor, crudely written and performed as one long leer. Only with a break like getting sued did Goldfarb appear to stand much chance at the box office...
...prepares to comply, but just then the grandmother of the boy next door arrives. "Help!" the old lady hollers. "My grandson wants to leave holy orders and marry you!" Marcello bites his nails until Sophia returns. "Let's make love in the kitchen!" he suggests with an eager leer. "Help!" the old lady hollers again at the back door. "He's going to join the Foreign Legion!" And so on, till at last Sophia starts to strip, then suddenly stops...
GRACE!" Her Grace knocks back the brandy and then with a small mad leer of bliss sits marinating mindlessly. "Flying is a most peculiar experience," she muses. "First they tie you to your seat and say you are going to go. Then they untie you and say you are not going to go. Hah! You'd never catch the Queen Mary behaving like that!" After Rutherford, Burton and Taylor hardly seem worth watching. But Rod Taylor holds his own pretty well...
...rears its smirky head in the first reel, tiptoes out with a yawn long before the end. Tour guide on this how-long-can-you-leer voyage into voyeurism is Peter Ustinov, past master of the suggestive "uh" ("Hitching rides with strange young men can be dangerous for coeds; you never know how they -uh-drive"). Going to movies like Women of the World can be dangerous too; it calls for an awfully strong-uh -stomach...
...every minute she is on stage, is Constancy (Melanie Adams), who yearns unrequited for Dr. Daly (Joel Martin), Vicar of Ploverleigh. Constancy and Dr. Daly very nearly dominate the entire evening and to no ill effect. Miss Adams has plenty of ham and an admirable voice, she can leer lasciviously and make a mock-tragic aria sound like decent Mozart. Joel Martin sang more clearly and yet with more spirit than most people speak...