Word: simps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Andrew Undershaft (Philip Bosco) is a munitions magnate. Having renounced his family some 20 years before, he suddenly descends upon them. His wife Lady Britomart (Rachel Gurney) is the same socially ingratiating charmer she always was. Undershaft finds his son Stephen (Nicholas Walker) a simp of propriety, and to his dismay learns that his mettlesome daughter Barbara (Laurie Kennedy) has become a devoted minion of the Salvation Army. Her adoring shadow is Adolphus Cusins (Nicolas Surovy), an elitist teacher of Greek. When Undershaft taunts him as "Euripides" and Cusins flings back "Machiavelli," the tycoon is rather taken with the scholar...
...first-class bitch somewhere inside that glorious exterior." The untrained ear probably misses all kinds of nuances there. What to make of Daisy's typical dialogue: "Pants? What about your good black crepe Holly Harp pants?" Clearly, the only way to see Daisy as something other than a simp is to plunge recklessly, "fast as a leopard . . . passionate as a puma," into her world...