Word: prude
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are other complications about bloodlines, old-boy and old-girl networks, the FBI and a touring orchestra backed by the CIA. All end in moral muddles that dramatically underscore the dilemma of ends and means. Higgins is no prude; he understands that evil can be a matter of degree, and he can live with the camel's nose in the tent. But in Outlaws he worries about the beast that decides to enter broadside...
...performances are in perfect high pitch. Cher and her screen sisters all catch the edge of flinty, frantic resilience; these three could bewitch any prospective devil. There are nifty turns from Veronica Cartwright (as the local prude) and Helen Lloyd Breed (as a sprightly oldster). Then there's Nicholson. Well! He might have been rehearsing for this role ever since The Shining. If he was over the top there, he is stratospheric here. He is a beast on two legs, grunting, slavering, pawing anyone, and never mind the scratches. Does Jack stink like Daryl? No, he is gloriously rank. Sulfuric...
Call me a purist or a prude, but it's nice to see a baseball book about hard work, dedication and, most of all, baseball...
...illegitimate coed group worried what their floater would think. "We were worried he'd be a real prude and he'd tell the senior tutor if I didn't move out," says "Debbie." "He turned out to be cool, but we were really nervous for a while...
...domestic life on automatic pilot, while his mind found refuge and flourished in the Waste Land. The play's Tom (Edward Herrmann) finds it "an enormous effort to be trivial" with people. He husbands his passion for the empty page. He is the hollow man, a prune and a prude with the secret sin of genius, which must not be dissipated in ordinary intercourse. This Olympian diffidence, Hastings suggests, was sufficient to make the young scholar from St. Louis a figure of fun to his English in-laws--and perhaps enough to drive his wife...