Word: suitoring
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...G.B.S. has included almost every one of his favorite types; there's the self-made S. B. Clemens-ish Tycoon, the capable Mother, the daring Young Thing, an impossible Suitor for her, a pious Burglar, a graying Aristocrat, and, of course, the "independent" Foreign Lady who can comment caustically on anything the home-bred figures miss. And, then, they all talk--Lord, how they talk: two straight hours of chatter as each character rises hungrily in turn, like a guppy at the food in a goldfish bowl, to strike his pose and horrify at least a good 1/9th...
...four young people. Faye Dunaway's Hypatia Tarleton (the Young Thing) shouts and mouthes her lines magnificently--rather like the tutored Eliza Doolittle. But a shout seems to be the limit of Miss Dunaway's acting capabilities, and she is less than arch, more that dull. As her original suitor, Jere Whiting is determinedly effeminate (he can shout, too); Robert Moulthrop, her eventual choice, must be a stout fellow, but his Etonian ways do not convince. The fourth one, William Gordy, Hypatia's brother, barks gruffy; he is not a little tedious...
...Will you open your door a little? She did, a little, and sat on the floor beside it. A glass of wine was pushed through the crack. She accepted it, and soon a small and very silly sculpture appeared in its place. She cradled the carving, and her reticent suitor started a Bergman serenade: "Just now my love is without end; Eternal is my love at this moment...
...Even the usually loyal London Times had stern words for the P.M.: "The government must set the pace . . . it must cease to shilly-shally . . . The pound is weak; no one is quite sure whether an economic crisis is around the corner or not; Britain appears almost as a frightened suitor at the feet of the Common Market...
...Janeiro. Convinced that one commoner in the royal family was enough, Olaf set his foot down, insisted that Astrid marry some true blueblood. In fast succession. Astrid turned her nose up at a series of princelings who could not distinguish between the stern and the spinnaker. Meanwhile, frustrated Suitor Ferner drifted into a marriage with an Oslo model, but by 1956 he was divorced and once again afloat with Astrid. They won many a regatta together, but not until last week did they win their most cherished prize, each other, with reluctant Olaf's gritted-teeth approval. They will...