Word: shapelessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the film is shapeless and its ending sissified (O'Hara let his hero go to hell, good woman and all), there are a few nice touches. Says a married chick to a dastard who is fumbling with her farthingale: "I think I'll go put on something a little more comfortable, like my husband." And when an overheated party girl who is trying to climb into Newman's cummerbund tells him, "I'm crowding 19," he asks, "Years or guys?" Actress Woodward is sexily soulless as a wife who flies her scarlet letter...
...Lonely Island. A more serious complaint is that the tried and true New Yorker formulas of the 1920s and '30s are out of place in the 1960s. The shapeless, plotless New Yorker short-story form tends more and more to pedestrian tales of the Irish moors and "When-I-was-a-child-in-Afghanistan-my-grandmother-used-to-tell-me" reminiscences. The New Yorker's cartoons still run faithfully to prisoners or to strandees on lonely islands. "I get awfully sick of prison pictures," admits Art Director James Geraghty, "but they keep coming in, and sometimes they...
...fountain," says Kricke, "is often nothing but a Neptune ringed by spitting fish. The real thing should not be a mere mass from which water spurts. It is water, the passive element, endowed with activity. It is water, the silent element, endowed with a voice. It is water, the shapeless element, endowed with a form...