Word: sluttishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London slums where she shares a flat with a sluttish violinist, Georgy discovers that sex is mostly a spectator sport. "You just missed being beautiful," mocks her roommate's modcap beau (Alan Bates). When the violinist gets pregnant, the mod marries her, and Georgy sticks around to cook, clean, clown, care for the baby, and light the slow-burning fires of infidelity. The emergence of Georgy is essentially a souped-up Cinderella tale, sometimes preposterous, always sentimental, but occasionally human and hilarious too. Plumpish birds who nest alone on Saturday nights will cherish its pathos, and others will respect...
...sure the parents of Maria Livanos are happy that their daughter has none of the sluttish qualities of Cressida--a sensual, unprincipled creature of the stews, no finer than the Westminster whores who were neighbors of the Globe Theatre. And the parents of Diana Echlin should be gratified that although her Helen is beautiful she is not going to destroy the United Nations with personal wantonness. Most of the actors in this depraved drama look like upright citizens who are not going to betray Troy, Greece or the United States...