Word: prude
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worships the Professor from afar, is here the dumbest blonde on film and never wears a lab coat. Because she has a heart of gold and sleeps with the Doctor without making a big fuss, she gets her man. Dr. Frankenstein's fiancee is gorgeous, but a fastidious prude--until she falls madly in love with the monster. The monster, hideous and despised by human society, becomes a sex symbol. Peter Boyle, as the monster, has eyes that say everything. Madeline Kahn is so luscious in the role of the fiancee that she seems even sexier with two vertical white...
...clothes he made sure he was seen in the night before with Hilda. Hilda herself had been carefully selected; she would let him put his hand on her shoulder, but would resist every time he tried to move it down to her breast. She was just enough of a prude to let Reid show everyone else what a mover he was without ever having to actually do anything to (with?) her. Later, Hilda told Reid that she couldn't let him go very far because he seemed to be interested only in her body. Of course, nothing could have bored...
...WALTER PRUDE...
Though her best characters are women, Cather was wary of her sex. In The Professor's House, the melancholic hero-obviously speaking for the author-decides that Euripides spent his last years in a cave "because he had observed women closely all his life." Cather was also a prude. We are not told Marian Forrester drinks a little but merely get "the sharp odor of spirits." In My Antonia, the local lecher is obliquely indicated by the comment that he set a former housemaid up "in the business for which he had trained...
...also ordered Grant's hair to be trimmed after someone remarked that his daughter must be glad to have him home. He was stunned by the sexual permissiveness of a movie that was not even X rated, and walked out of the theater. "And I'm no prude either," he insists...