Word: motherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the family closet of Republican Attorney General William Pierce Rogers came a political skeleton: daughter Dale, 21, a senior at Cornell University, is a registered Democrat. Said her mother, in a ragged defense: "When politics comes up at home, she is pretty much...
...carried the one-sided conversation to a hilarious and colorful climax. She was ably assisted in this by Olive Dunbar as Mrs. Eynsford Hill, and Joyce Ebert as her daughter, whose wonderful indignant facial expression added a great deal of amusement to the overall scene. Cavada Humphrey, as Higgins' mother, played the Victorian matriarch to the hilt. Higgins' colleague, Pickering, was adroitly played by Robert Blackburn...
Actress Carere is presented as a homebody who yearns to marry a nice young law student (Bradford Dillman). But his mother does not like her, and her mother gets upset at the sight of him. Only solution: pop off to the seaside with his rakish Uncle Luc (Rossano Brazzi). In the book, after Luc's wife (Joan Fontaine) discovers their affair, Dominique goes right on with him. On the screen, endowed with an honestly passionate heart and soul, Dominique can only tearfully apologize and slink back to the youthful boy friend. Franchise Sagan doubtless regards the movie with...
...Knock On Any Door. Like his father, young Nick grows up on North Clark Street, home of the hustler, the "hard-eyed, the con-man, the pimp." Escape comes in the form of "The Man what brings the heat." Most everybody is on the weed. Nick watches his own mother get hooked and degenerate into a slavering junkie who pads down with anybody who will give her the money for her morning fix. Inevitably, Nick starts to torch up himself. His salvation is Magazine Writer Holloway, who is doing a series of taped interviews on the dope trade...
...Gide, "an incredible figure . . . plaster-faced . . . gotten up like a circus clown and acting a fantastic, strenuously contrived role which showed no human characteristic." He often carried firearms. Once he was shooting the tops off champagne bottles lined up against a wall behind which some children were playing. Their mother hurried over to complain that her children might be shot. "If that should ever happen, Madame, we should ourselves be delighted to get some new ones with you," Jarry courteously replied...