Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movie's opening scenes establish the unreal tone which Director Kubrick adeptly maintains for the remaining two hours. While the titles are flashed on the screen, Humbert Humbert (James Mason) is shown behind them giving a manicure treatment to Lolita (Sue Lyon). The movie proper opens with the scene that ends the book. Gun in pocket, James Mason stalks into Clare Quilty's (Peter Sellers) mansion, and commits an amusing if horrifying murder. Sellers is superb as he tries to talk the insane Humbert out of killing him--an unshaven, hungover ping-pong player...
...heads out to Wellesley at 11 a.m. to pick up dates for the game. The evening bus will depart at 12 midnight for a leisurely trip back to the dorms. Three stops will be made to permit proper farewells. Call the Key office for reservations...
...morally and ethically proper'' for Nixon, who was then Vice President, to condone such an arrangement? Said Nixon: "I have made mistakes, but I am an honest man." Then he quickly cast Brown as the heavy, charged that though Kennedy in 1960 had refused to "make a political issue out of my brother's difficulties." Brown and his "hatchetmen" were conducting a whispering campaign about it. Now. challenged Nixon. "Governor Brown has a chance to stand up as a man and charge me with misconduct. Do it. sir." Caught off guard. Brown retreated in haste, virtually apologized...
...orderly rule was established and maintained in Ilhéus by the most efficient of means: gunfire. Now, in the 1920s, there are modernists who say that gunfire is outdated; the new method is the free election. Polls are rigged, of course, to ensure that power remains in the proper hands, but oldtimers see no merit in the innovation; the elections are cumbersome and not at all entertaining...
There is also the serious matter of morality. In the old days a proper Brazilian wife stayed home, speaking only to the servants and to God. Now the town fathers are mortified; a man cannot walk home from a quiet evening at the brothel without seeing married women and their spineless husbands shamelessly laughing at the door of the new cinema. It is all very disturbing...