Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...details to make a convincing picture of one mad housewife. Tina clarifies the position of the housewife in general, but she is no flat generalization. And for once children are portrayed without any of the usual cuteness: Tina's two girls are devoid of any charm. They are brats pure and simple. Benjamin is slimy and nervous, like a persnickety housewife himself: everything must be just so-the salad, the furniture, the damson plum preserves. Snodgrass' real housewife is suitably hassled and frustrated by the mad world around her, but she meets it head-on: this is no sob story...
ALEC GUINNESS as King Charles I gives a performance of such finesse that Harris' Cromwell, by contrast, seems all peevish bluster. Cromwell can retain audience sympathy only when he strikes out against painfully over-drawn bogies of pure evil, such as the dissolute Lord Manchester (Robert Morley). Though Hughes takes pains to paint Cromwell as a sexually vigorous masculine dynamo (we even have one shot of him the bracing a long spear), there is more life and sexuality in the tender parting of Charles and his queen (Dorothy Tutin) than in either of the cardboard domestic scenes between Oliver...
...part of the new romanticism. "I'm old-fashioned," she insists. "I don't believe in promiscuity. I don't believe in drugs. Anything that feels as good as pot must be bad for you. I believe in love. I guess at heart I'm a pure romantic. I believe a woman's place is in the home...
...noted Austrian metallurgist who fled to the U.S. after the 1938 Anschluss and later aided the Allied war effort; in Reutte, Austria. A pioneer in powder metallurgy (a method of producing metal parts without melting the components), Schwarzkopf developed techniques that allowed the U.S. to overcome a shortage of pure iron during World War II and produce millions of parts for field telephones and similar instruments. Among his other discoveries was tungsten carbide, a substance so hard that it has all but displaced diamonds as drill bits...
...saintly matters begins during boyhood in a tiny Canadian village when he meets the young wife of a hard-shell Baptist preacher. She is thought to be simple by the townspeople, and proves it to the villagers' angry satisfaction by copulating with a tramp, apparently out of pure charity, and then calmly explaining-when they are caught together-that she did it because "He was very civil. And he wanted it so badly." After that her husband keeps her tied up. She takes little notice of this restraint and continues to exist in untroubled innocence, or so it seems...