Word: sulking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ludicrous. Miss Russell once again tries to compensate for an inability to change her facial expression by changing her costume as frequently as possible. Mature simply wiggles his ears, whether hanging by his hands from an iron bar twenty feet off the ground or watching singer Russell sulk beside a piano. Hoagy Carmichael looks stupid as a troubadour-hillbilly-cupid type, and Vincent Price looks just plain tired...
...Sulks & Nerves. For more than a year Dr. Walter has been studying the habits of his pets. He is still unable to predict exactly how they will act. Sometimes they wander happily between two gentle lights, apparently enjoying an occasional change of scenery. Sometimes they get panicky when they hit a difficult obstacle. They may stall, sulk or become wildly agitated, almost as if the frustration were giving them a nervous breakdown...
While the young sulk, the elders cavort. Papa Pomfret has an obliging mistress and Mama Weatherby flirts freelance. Each laments the drab respectability of the new generation. "Sometimes," says Mama Weatherby of her son, "I almost wonder if he knows the facts of life even. You see he respects girls so!" And Papa Pomfret wryly complains that he "has to implore his child not to be home at certain hours...