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...quieter moments, however, Mostel comes through beautifully. As a prospective purchaser, he examines a leggy pair of twin slaves like a prosperous matron examining a pair of table lamps, and then earnestly inquires: "I don't suppose you'd break up a set?" And as a connoisseur of wines, he inspects a jug of fine Falernian and asks sniffishly: "Was 1 a good year...
...Geneva, Rousseau had a checkered childhood. His mother died when he was born (in 1712), his father either spoiled him or neglected him. In his youth, he successively became an apprentice lawyer, an engraver and a vagrant. He wandered into the entourage of Mme. de Warens, a sprightly young matron and Catholic convert who was easily able to induce her young lover to accept the old faith. Later, when Rousseau wanted to resume the hereditary rights of a citizen of Geneva, he had to forswear his conversion. The road to and from Rome was equally painless...
LYSISTRATA (Caedmon). Disgusted with the 20-year-old Peloponnesian War, Aristophanes attacked the Greek "hawks" with volleys of ribaldry. In the celebrated tale of how women ended the war with a sex strike, Hermione Gingold slyly makes double entendres sound quadruple as the Athenian matron who urges the ladies to stay out of the bedrooms until their men get off the battlefields...
...stitch on by the time she reproachfully tells her playboy-pianist: "I don't trust you." He, in turn, observes boyish discretion by bounding up at intervals to tussle with a window shade that lets in too much light. The sly tone is sustained through a dormitory matron's wonderfully irrelevant lecture on morals to the film's bittersweet climax in Prague, where the boy's parents forcibly separate their wayward son from his unexpected guest by dragging him off to their own bed for a riotous family quarrel...
...Senator Pell is a real smoothie, all right," said a Newport matron, "but this colonel is really dragging him up and down over the coals." The colonel in question is Lieut. Colonel Briggs, U.S.A. (ret.), a brisk-mannered, parade-ground-voiced old campaigner who is gunning for the Rhode Island Senate seat of Democrat Claiborne Pell...