Word: shapelessness
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...stores"-but only to stare enviously at shoddy goods priced way out of reach of the average worker's 40-dong monthly salary. (A bicycle, at 400 dong, is the ultimate symbol of status.) Loudspeakers call everybody to calisthenics three times a day. Dressed Chinese-style in shapeless jackets instead of the traditional silk tunic, women are almost indistinguishable from...
Their views still shapeless, their loyalties unformed, reluctant to see every issue in terms of the cold war, the new nations reacted mainly to self-interest. Even that self-interest was confused. Early in the session, they had voted unanimously for the U.N.'s intervention in the Congo. By session's end, some did not seem even sure they wanted the U.N. there after...
...dare you, sir, suggest-in fact, state -that until 1950 each and every British girl, unless she was born to the aristocracy, was dull, dowdy, poor complexioned, wore cotton stockings and shapeless dresses, and had poor teeth...
...beauty was long considered a privilege of the upper classes, to be observed chiefly in the form of ball-gowned aristocrats gliding serenely through the pages of the Tatler and Queen. The British girl of average station wore cotton stockings and shapeless dresses, had the general air of somebody who couldn't care less-and couldn't afford it if she did. Misty climate produced the famed peaches-and-cream complexion. But for a poorly fed city girl, the result was merely chapped skin. The working girl, raised on a poor diet and less dentistry, aged early...
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...