Word: milquetoasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hope Lange is a chauffeur-chasing heiress who chases Chauffeur Glenn Ford, lures him to a booby-trapped love nest, and almost nabs him. Charles Boyer runs a school for would-be grooms, where Pupil Ricardo Montalban learns that even the aging Boyer is not yet a Casbah Milquetoast...
...cemetery instead of church. "Crawl up the cross!" Winifred orders Mrs. Baines at the site of the grave. "Cry, you bitch, cry." Mrs. Baines obliges, while Wrinifred claws hysterically at the grave. But the rest of the week Mrs. Baines rules the household. She brutally orders her Milquetoast husband about, refuses to be in the same room with Winifred. A bad case of Calvinist repression, will-less Joshua cannot even bring himself to say "I want." His only solace is the Bible and the thought of death. Mrs. Baines consoles him: "Think of a day when you're nothing...
...lately presented the incongruous figure of a Milquetoast engaged in a street brawl. Unwilling to dirty its hands, it has allowed itself to be pushed into the gutter by the left and right of Laos and Cuba. Eventually we will be surely beaten if we do not fight back...
...often, you depict every run-of-the-mill, nondescript, Caspar Milquetoast, blend-into-the-woodwork type gangster as looking like a bank clerk. And now Eichmann! Come, come, TIME. Where are you doing your banking? Surely not out here in the West, where I am married to a banker who looks like a gangster...
...Gazebo (Avon; M-G-M), Hollywood's reconstruction of the Broadway comedy hit, is a fairly successful piece of graveyard humor. The corpse is provided by a wildly improbable murderer (Glenn Ford), a young Milquetoast who writes and directs TV whodunits, and who takes a potshot one night at a particularly unpleasant blackmailer. When the whodunist sees his first real-life cadaver, he almost faints. When he wraps the body in a plastic tarpaulin, the plastic tears. When he wraps it in a shower curtain and goes to bury it in the fresh foundation of a new gazebo (summerhouse...