Word: nut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fastest-moving tales ever written, her pastel-tinted miscreant wiggled under a forbidden fence for a lawless day in Mr. McGregor's garden and wriggled forever into the lives of millions. That story was followed by a score of other children's books, tales of Squirrel Nut-kin, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Mrs. Tittle-mouse, Mr. Jeremy Fisher, and-generally recognized by Potter connoisseurs as her masterpiece-The Tailor of Gloucester...
...lunatic impulses. In the movie, everyone seems to be racing against the threat of imminent condensation. Director Kershner pounces upon an idea without developing it, and his commendable desire to do a different sort of comedy boils down into more of the same old wheeze-just another nonconformist nut matching wits with even nuttier psychiatrists...
...attack with: "What kind of man was I, to get my wife pregnant at a time like this?" As the wife, Betty Field runs the risk of menopausal pregnancy, while the other girls crank up enough trauma for several melodramas. Mission Leader Margaret Leighton is a sexually repressed religious nut with lesbian leanings toward Teacher Sue Lyon. Anne Bancroft (in a role vacated by Patricia Neal when she suffered a stroke) plays a tough mission doctor who drinks, smokes, tells truths that hurt, and ultimately saves everyone else by giving herself in concubinage to the lustful Khan (Mike Mazurki). Flora...
...pretty lass who liked the Beatles and roller skating, Sylvia was nicknamed Cookie and described by a girl friend as "a sweet nut." With her few possessions - her most treasured was a jewelry box in which she kept two favorite pins -Sylvia moved into Mrs. B.'s rundown house in an Indianapolis blue-collar neighborhood...
...trundle on to Brattle St. with your paper sack of "spring" action clothespins, clipping them onto signs and children and Volkswagons and all and just when you're getting to like it the man comes up to you and says, "What's a matta kid? You some kind nut or somethun...