Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TARZAN (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Suzy Parker is anything but plain Jane as a woman archeologist searching for an ancient gold lion...
...Around our house she is spoken of as a member of the family. In addition to admiration and respect for her culinary abilities, we just plain love her. I was cooking family meals for 20 years "before Julia"; "since Julia" meals are as superior as a jet to a covered wagon...
...Sherman: "Frankly, I don't think I'm going to put any glitter on my Christmas tree, I'm so sick of it. It's everywhere. In everything. On their shoes. On their eyelids. It's a treat to see a woman in a plain, unembellished dress...
...bitchy nymphomanic roommate who deserts her own child and runs off with an anonymous sugar daddy; a ne'er-do-well lover who quits his job, ignores his baby, and calls Georgy "fat face;" and a butler father who pressures her to marry his leering middle-aged employer. Plain, put-upon, hugging her baby-care books to her ample front, Georgy is supposed to be a sympathetic figure; but what the director and the weeping girls behind me seemed to ignore is that she's as pitiful and reprehensible as the rest...
Only in retrospect was the 17th century in Holland seen as the age of Rembrandt. At the time, it was the glittering solidity of a moneyed middle class, the robust freedom of a people unburdened by spendthrift - and the plain cockiness of the most successful seafaring nation in Europe that struck the eye. These are characteristics that Frans Hals pictured with precision...