Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diplomatic immunity in pajama tops. True love is the Belgian lass (Michele Mercier), a high-minded guide from the Low Countries. Obviously, the movie makes a negligible contribution to world amity and understanding, despite such gimmicks as a walk-on role by U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. Stooped, sage and sober, the ambassador looks like a man who knows the U.N. will survive even this sad Affair...
...family-minded French was dragging the children along as witnesses. Little eyes pop, come Sunday morning, when an unhappy husband steals down to the beach to attack a blonde, buxom nursemaid while she tends her flock. Inexplicably, this departure from form jolts the wife swappers into a moment of sober self-appraisal...
...less chronologically-until occasionally whole poems are free of howlers. Still the reader finds Melville awkward and even embarrassed in the presence of poetry, as if poetry were attended by a duenna and not a muse. His enormously long philosophical poem Clarel, which is excerpted here, is a sober, jointy affair in which pilgrims clatter painfully about the Holy Land thirsting after truth amid the waterless cantos...
...sure how seriously to take the psychological mishmash. If Costigan is truly concerned with dreams and guilt feelings, he doesn't say very much, badly. And if the whole play is intended as a boff of modern theater, Costigan fluffs the job by giving the production an overly sober tone...
...print of a film called The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower and holds it for ransom. Got it? Forget it. Lacking inspiration, Writer George Axelrod (The Seven Year Itch) and Director Richard Quine should have taken a hint from Holden, who writes his movie, takes a long sober look at what he has wrought, and burns...