Word: prim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...understand how she can misconstrue Ida's strong-willed determination as "prim," "sanctimonious" or "stiff." The other actors created a funny, exciting, thoughtful production. Levenstein turned it into something extraordinary...
...lovable grouch roles that used to be taken by Jessica Tandy? Will Winona Ryder ever get to play an adult? Ryder, Bullock and Julia Roberts all seem to be auditioning for the role of America's Niece, and as a result their films come off a bit prim. "Hollywood is in a postfeminist era," says Sharon Stone, one of the few current grownup actresses with that old movie-star radiance. "It's less difficult to be accepted and paid equally as a woman than it is to have all that and be feminine at the same time. I think women...
Amid all the prim prattle about family values--a term definable only as a vague expression of nostalgia for a past that never was--the Lidz clan, dysfunctioning in Los Angeles in the 1960s, reminds us that the American home has been, often as not, a nuthouse. And that early, massive exposure to eccentricity can be the best possible preparation for the life that follows: what does not make us completely crazy makes us strong. Or at least tolerant and flexible, qualities that are largely absent from our book of virtues these days...
...right--presumptuous and prim but on the money: self-respect. The answer is in the black mind. Forget about the white mind. The Muslims have been saying it for years...
...made 18 films in eight years, and part of the pleasure of following him has been to see a fellow with leading-man looks play so many variations on the upper-class twit. Last year, besides his suavely manic turn in Four Weddings, he was seen as the prim prelate in the Australian soft-core Sirens and as an hors d'oeuvre to a sexually voracious woman in Roman Polanski's Bitter Moon. Now three more Grant films are in the U.S. malls: he is the lead in Nine Months and An Awfully Big Adventure and a supporting player...