Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER. A Macy's salesgirl (Natalie Wood) hazards a fling with a sometime musician (Steve McQueen), and this tough-minded little comedy takes it from there, neatly improvising on a humdrum theme...
Social Stress. Anxious to learn how overcrowding does work, Calhoun put rats in four interconnected pens six feet square. Two of the pens were quickly pre-empted by boss male rats that kept harems of females and allowed no other males to mate with them. The harem females made proper nests, bore healthy young and raised them successfully. But in the other two pens, where no single males took charge, social stress was rampant. Some of the males gave the females no rest. Others turned homosexual or hid in corners. The females stopped making proper nests, and their young, born...
...actual situations in Any Wednesday are neither wicked nor sexy, just amusingly compromising. A neophyte secretary, innocently directing proper strangers to the improper address, sends around Cass Henderson (Gene Hackman), an irately appealing small businessman who has come to town to beard John Cleves. When Mrs. John Cleves drops in, Cass poses obligingly as Ellen's husband. When John barges in, all four characters fall sudden prey to lockjaw or dropjaw. Then the comedy slacks into matchmaking...
...specifically modern esthetic values." The complexity jazz has lately acquired has always been present in Monk's music, and there is hardly a jazz musician playing who is not in some way indebted to him. On his tours last year he bought a silk skullcap in Tokyo and a proper chapeau at Christian Dior's in Paris; when he comes home to New York next month with his Finnish lid, he will say with inner glee, "Yeah?I got it in Helsinki." The spectacle of Monk at large in Europe last week was cheerful evidence of his new fame?...
These deficiencies are not likely to be overcome by a rash attack on North Vietnam. Such a policy would increase greatly the chance of Chinese participation, and would threaten to involve large numbers of U.S. troops in an area where they do not belong. The proper approach in Vietnam is not more war, but a cease fire...