Word: skittish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outlaws in this movie are born of history but made of myth. Jesse James is crazy, a killer by blood and pleasure. Cole Younger, equally deadly, is shrewder, less skittish. Both are bandits who become political heroes, leaders of a gang of irregulars who ride through Missouri warring against the new railroad that is appropriating the farm land...
...comes at the resolution of the film's main action. A distinguished middle-aged lawyer is unable to consummate his second marriage to a skittish child-wife--who has meanwhile fallen in love with the lawyer's church-studying stepson. At a house party which the three other love pairs attend also, the wife and the stepson, by a variety of plot and thematic clevernesses, end up in the same bed. The young couple make their exit in the lawyer's carriage, while he looks on and does nothing. The wife's virginal white veil flutters to the ground...
...that Moonchildren does injustice to the seriousness of the peace movement and other student causes by making too many jokes at their expense--but that is just the point. The more serious an issue the more fiercely these kids try to exorcise it with the uneasy magic of their skittish laughter...
...their seats, shifted their jewels and studied their catalogues. From high on a rostrum center stage, a young man in a tuxedo surveyed the all-white crowd, then once again rapped his gavel and begged for silence. When it came at last, he reverentially intoned the pedigree of the skittish filly in the ring below, then turned the microphone over to the man beside him. "Well-1-1-1 . . ." began the second man in a rolling baritone, "who'll give 10,000 to starta? I got five, six, seven. All righty nowya, who'll give 10,000 fora...
Speedy southpaws, a notably skittish breed, are traditionally either late bloomers or early dropouts. Lefty Grove was 27 before he hit his stride, Rube Waddell 25 before he found the strike zone, and Warren Spahn 25 before he won his first major-league game...