Word: raffish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HEtLO, DOLLY! is a twinkle-toed musical, thanks to Director-Choreographer Gower Champion's dancers and to a raffish, resourceful matchmaker, Carol Channing...
REUBEN, REUBEN, by Peter De Vries. A raffish, gifted poet, who very much resembles Dylan Thomas, visits suburbia, proves to be a catalyst in combination with sex and liquor. The partying and the pratfalls are followed by a vintage De Vries hangover of brooding second thoughts about modern life...
...EASY LIFE. One of the funniest-and saddest-films ever made in Italy is Director Dino Risi's study of a raffish Roman playboy (Vittorio Gassman) who jet-propels a shy young law student (Jean Louis Trintignant) into a world of fast cars, soft shoulders and sudden death...
...play is still a religious allegory centered on "the need to find someone or something that means God to you." But the character of Flora Goforth, the rich, raffish ex-Follies girl dying in her Italian mountaintop villa, has lost fire. When Hermione Baddeley played Flora, the dark power of death was as chilling as her nighttime screams. The second Mrs. Goforth, Tallulah Bankhead, seems to regard death as part of the servant problem, a petty retainer whom she can sack with a throaty rumble of brandy-voiced regality. Perhaps actressing is a better word for her performance than acting...
Hard by the Tees. This raffish end product of Britain's welfare state was born in the mind of a onetime butcher's helper who strayed into the graphic arts quite by chance. Britain's largest daily, the London Daily Mirror (circ. 4,631,000), wanted to woo Northern English readers with a new comic strip set in that grimy part of the island, and Freelance Artist Reginald Smythe just happened to be available for the job. Smythe had grown up in the north of England, in an industrial blight called Hartlepool, hard by the River Tees...