Word: proper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lawrence's notorious novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover. According to the New York State Board of Regents, the film was "immoral within the intent of our law," which prohibits exhibition of shows that portray "acts of sexual immorality, perversion or lewdness ... as desirable, acceptable or proper patterns of behavior." So the judges watched Lady Chatterley (played by Danielle Darrieux) make a cuckold of Sir Clifford Chatterley (Leo Genn) with Sir Clifford's gamekeeper (Erno Crisa). According to a dozen or so U.S. movie reviewers, they saw a tasteful, well-acted, far from sensational film. Neither the French...
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, by Simone de Beauvoir. An all-but-Proustian remembrance of things past, when the future queen of existentialism was a proper, fretful and insomniac student princess...
Policy Advice. In Detroit, when he was unable to find the cashier at the Quaker City Life Insurance Co.. a robber interrupted a meeting of insurance agents to get proper directions, then made off with...
...turns out to look like nothing worse than Alan Ladd with eyebrows. "Don't ever think for an instant," Sister Luke is warned, "that your habit will protect you." After teasing this tedious notion about for the better part of an hour, the script clumsily returns to its proper theme: love of God v. love of mankind...
...Highly apt is the background for Romeo's Mantuan soliloquy: an unaccompanied English horn, suggested perhaps by the third act opening of Wagner's Tristan. At the opening performance the balance of the instruments in ensemble playing was awry, but this is easily remedied. George Balanchine's choreography is proper if not exceptional...