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Elise Paschen is delightfully unfaithful as Celimene, Alceste's amour. When she matches couched insults with the prudish Arsinoe, admirably portrayed by Felicity Stafford, The Misanthrope is both funny and a serious commentary on the double-edged talk of an insincere society...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Insincere Romantic | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

...They call themselves holy but holiness costs and so far as I can see they pay nothing." She was proper but not prudish. "All these moralists who condemn Lolita give me the creeps," she noted. "I go by the notion that a comic novel has its own criteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Letters off Flannery O'Connor | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...much since high school, where her yearbook inscription read: "What is the one thing Sally would want on a desert island? A husband." Gradually, awakened by her experience in the veteran's hospital and by the feminist roommate she moves in with, a new consciousness emerges. She sheds her prudish dresses and skirt outfits for jeans and imported shirts, becomes increasingly anti-war, and eventually falls in love with Voight. After this happens, their ideal love affair becomes the central focus of the movie. But the point is that the way you love is the way you live...

Author: By Bob Grady, | Title: 'Nam Goes to the Movies | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

City Councilor Lawrence S. DiCara '71, widely acknowledged to be the most progressive of the councilors (somewhat like being called the most prudish woman in a whorehouse), said last month the city council is "hostile" towards the finance commission. Councilor John J. Kerrigan, a self-proclaimed racist, chairs the city council's Ways and Means Committee and wants to reduce the finance commission's budget to the legally mandated $85,000 minimum. The seven remaining dated $85,000 minimum. The seven remaining councilors have not taken any actions to aid the friendless finance commission. City Council President Michael Connolly told...

Author: By Mike Kendall, | Title: The Politics of Spite | 5/10/1977 | See Source »

...area the film makers were curiously prudish. Except for one scene, where Caligula evenhandedly deflowers both a bride and her bridegroom, their Caligula, unlike Vidal's, is as straight as the Appian Way. Says McDowell: "Historically, there is nothing to show that Caligula was in any way homosexual." That is a bit of instant scholarship that would no doubt surprise Gibbon, not to mention Suetonius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Will the Real Caligula Stand Up? | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

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