Word: menfolk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...audience, basking in reverie and a second brandy, believes her. Svelte in a glittering, hip-hugging gown, her generously exposed bosom gently heaving, she moves like a vision in a halo of amber light. "You'd be so nice to come home to," she purrs, and the menfolk are hooked. Now she is happy, now she is blue, and so, alternately, is the audience. They can hardly help it. It all seems so sincere, so spontaneous, so terribly special...
...lover, she barely tolerates marriage to a handyman she loathes. Angela (Gio Petre) is a young aristocrat, seduced and abandoned by her aunt's former paramour. Agda (Harriet Andersson) is a trollop who took sweets from a lecherous stranger at nymphet age, and has been surpassingly generous to menfolk ever since...
Along with most other holler folk, Floyd Handshoe is virtually illiterate. To keep his job, according to federal regulations, Floyd-the father of 14 children-must struggle ignobly off to school two nights a week, when most menfolk thereabouts have other things on their minds. His wan, dark-haired wife says hopefully: "Floyd never could read. I notice now he can write his name real good. They act like it hurts them to go to school, but it don't." Nonetheless, the Handshoes' main aim in life is not to qualify for factory jobs but simply...
Forgotten Bash. Corsages wilted, par ty gowns wrinkled, coiffures uncoiffed. The silence in the galleries grew more and more ominous; the menfolk below had plainly forgotten all about Lyndon's bash. All the Republicans could think about was new amendments to the bill. For example, Kansas' Bob Dole introduced an amendment to give the First Lady rather than the Secretary of Commerce the power to enforce the beautification bill. It got nowhere. Nor did a raft of other G.O.P. amendments. The more the Democrats tried to choke off the beautification debate, the angrier the opposition became...
...Director Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street, The Organizer) exuberantly parodies such earthy Sicilian comedies as Pietro Germi's Seduced and Abandoned. Posing as a doctor, Mastroianni offers his protection to a dishonored country girl (Yolanda Modio) and becomes so inflamed by the nearness of her murderous menfolk that he begins biting buttons off her dress. Another stylishly funny sequence, indebted to Fellini, drums up elegant corruption at a villa where a deaf aristocrat's mistress (Marisa Mell) tries to persuade Mastroianni to kill for her. In pursuit of the lady, he is ferried languidly along...