Word: puppyish
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...usage and the maintenance of grammatical traditions? No, Dickson has no ideological purpose. He is the amiable spieler who wrote such frivolities as The Great American Ice Cream Book and The Mature Person's Guide to Kites, Yo-Yos, Frisbees . . . As for words, he nuzzles them all with puppyish enthusiasm...
...cast, in its entirety, consists of Joe Masiell, who sounds, as convention demands, as if he were chanting from the bottom of a rain barrel; Mort Schuman, who comes on tousled and puppyish and is presumably available for comic relief; and Elly Stone. Miss Stone is what Variety might call a diminutive thrush. She is at pains to assure us, however, that she is mighty of spirit. In every song she gives it all she's got. In her case, this amounts to two wide eyes, a loud voice and a battery of emotional gestures that range from wringing...
...scenes,") Ralph Pochoda (as Iago) beguiles the audience only a little less than he does his victims onstage. In the process of driving Othello to Desdemona's murder, he fleeces Roderigo with confidence-inspiring volubility. The objections of Desdemona's wishful suitor (played aptly by Rick Carey as a puppyish windvane to Iago's rhetorical blasts) become thinly veiled pleas for a few more flattering promises...
...Aziz (expertly played by Zia Mohyeddin), a Moslem who is young, charming, overemotional, awkward and desperately anxious to please. His position, India's and Britain's are dryly summed up by two incidents. Before the ladies come, Fielding cannot find his back collar stud, and the puppyish Aziz plucks out his own and forces the principal to take it. Later Miss Quested's fiancé, by his own admission a "sundried bureaucrat," uses Aziz to illustrate the hopeless flaw in the Indian character: the man is neatly dressed, he points out, except for a comical inattention...
...main things that is intended to be exciting about this adaptation of Novelist Chandler's The High Window is the spectacle of a pretty girl learning, ever so shyly, how to enjoy being touched. Miss Guild has considerable prettiness and a kind of puppyish innocence in these scenes, but they are still somewhat embarrassing. Mr. Montgomery is a little too suave and petulant to be convincing as Marlowe. There are, however, some fair bursts of violence and some good sets...