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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Blood and Fire | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flower Child | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

...impoverished Hell's Kitchen: a lame World War II vet (Armand Assante), a loudmouthed schemer (Stallone) and a dumb but sweet aspiring wrestler (Lee Canalito). As Alice Kramden of TV's The Honeymooners might put it, what we have here are a gimp, a blimp and a simp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hard Times | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

WEDDING IN WHITE has Jeannie (Carol Kane) as something of a simp, and her best friend Dollie (Bonnie Carol Case) something of a scamp with a tal ent for leading men on and turning them off. When a buddy of Jeannie's soldier brother Jimmie (Paul Bradley) makes a play for Dollie late one beery night, Dollie leaves in a huff. He (Doug McGrath) turns to Jeannie, takes her and warns her to stay quiet about it. He and Jimmie return to the army the next day. Jeannie is pregnant, her moth er (Doris Petrie) hysterical, her father (Donald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

...oasis for gentle daydreamers. It is a foxhole of the color war-full of venomous nightmares, thwarted aspirations and trigger-quick tempers, a place where the napalm of hurt has seared each man's skin. The jukebox rumbles with hard rock; a dope-addled white simp serves drinks when he is not rattling drumsticks along the bar in a syncopated frenzy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Bar Stool in a Black Hell | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

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