Word: smitten
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...start, however, we know something is up--boy doesn't meet girl in Fresno. A teacher, instead, falls for a ravishing but ignorant peasant in a remote Russian village. The premise unfolds quickly. An unfortunate group of Soviet serfs living in a secluded part of the Ukraine has been smitten with a curse that renders them, and their descendents, totally dense. If anyone stays in Kulyenchikov for more than 24 hours, he, too, loses all intelligence. A long procession of teachers has attempted to break the chain by enlightening one student, but all have failed because of the curse...
...expected to toil for their keep. Poor Albin, forced to live not a fantasy of femininity but one of its harsher realities, finds himself scrubbing floors and harvesting grain-all of which distinctly goes against his grain. He is also pursued by an inarticulate rustic type, who is apparently smitten by the hearty figure he cuts in a peasant skirt. There are good laughs in this unlikely obsession, and in a well-managed final shootout...
Before AT&T ever thought of it, Patricia has reached out and touched someone. Gerald, who looks as solid as Wall Street before the '29 crash, is love smitten. With a generous helping of comic relief, including Timothy Wallace playing a musical saw, omnia vincit amor...
...plot, as in a typical Popeye cartoon, is thin. Popeye arrives in Sweethaven looking for his father. He lodges at the Oyls, becomes smitten with Olive and does battle with her betrothed, Bluto. Popeye eventually finds his father, rescues Olive and Swee'pea from Bluto and, thanks to a handy can of spinach, sends the brute packing...
...Gilda Radner), a child bride of 22 going on eleven. She heartbrokenly announces that Nora is having an affair with her husband Peter. Peter (David Rasche), a multimillionaire, "is rich for a living," and he must have spied Carrie from his private jet, since he could scarcely have been smitten by her at Polaroid range...