Word: pert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...provided some moving excerpts from his diary of a fumbled tournament that cost him a grand master's rating. Lessing has wittily recalled a misspent youth in one of Manhattan's less salubrious chess-and coffeehouses. The authors have also taken care to make the historical sections pert and amusing. "Can you forgive me this indiscretion?" Benjamin Franklin writes to a wealthy Frenchwoman. "Never hereafter shall I consent to begin a game [of chess] in your bathroom...
...these flaws were not enough, the movie has the style and texture of an Army training film. When Dad, first learning of his infertility, asks Mom (in front of the doctor) to reassure him that he has indeed made every valiant effort, she responds with a pert, "Oh, yes, dear. You worked your tail off." This may be a small movie, but it is definitely worth hating...
Shavelson, whose credits include The Pigeon That Took Rome and The War Between Men and Women, shows himself a master of a formula that used to be standard fare on TV sitcoms: the emasculated American male who blusters and protests while remaining the tool of his pert, soft-spoken but granite-willed wife. Here he is played by Joseph Bologna, she by the adept but woefully misused Barbara Harris. Hubby coaches a hapless professional basketball team, the Phoenix Suns. He makes a good enough living, however. His suburban home is roomy, wellappointed, and chock-full of kids-three when...
...casting, which resulted in many first-rate individual performances. In particular, David Cohen as the long-suffering Morris, LaGuardia's right hand man, and Paul Hewitt as Ben, the slick local party leader, rate gold stars for both their singing and acting performances. Steffi Sackman is a pert and lovable Dora, and Greg Minahan is properly earnest as Neil, the young law clerk. There is not a single really bad performance, and where the acting is weak, the problem is usually the book as much as it is the actor...
Alan's father is a do-gooding socialist printer and a self-righteous authoritarian moralist who gets his after-hours kicks at skin flicks. At the stable where he works on weekends, Alan is sexually aroused by a pert, enticing co-employee (Roberta Maxwell). In a nude scene that precedes the play's climax, they try to make love but Alan falters. He feels that the eyes of his gods watch and condemn him. Then the horror begins...