Word: sulking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CLAUDE EASTMAN (Dudley Moore) looks like an unhappy man. "In Italy," his wife Daniella (Nastassja Kinski) purrs, "we show our emotions." "In New York," Claude replies, "we just sulk." But ultimately Claude's sulking gives way to delusions of honor regained. Weeks before. Claude was the happiest man around: a successful orchestra conductor and top celebrity, infatuated with his dazzlingly beautiful young wife. "I love her," he says at the beginning of the movie, adding, "but I am going to kill her." What went wrong is the premise for the plot of his latest movie. Unfaithfully Yours...
There were no curfews; instead, Woodie was put on his honor to be home on time for adult dinner parties. "Was I not," he asks, "in the sad fiction we were maintaining, a co-host?" That fiction held him tighter than chains. "I did not even sulk," recalls the author, "since honor forbids sulking, but rage ran through my head." It worked itself out through his body. The miniature adult suffered from a debilitating series of allergies and diseases...
...still not concede his daughter is an adult ("Look at this fat little girl" is his greeting), and soon he is hectoring Bill about where he and Chelsea will sleep ("You could have the room where I first violated Ethel"). As for Billy, he is wary, always ready to sulk or run. But there are possibilities in the situation. It could break Norman's habit of turning ever more tightly in on himself, and teach Billy his conviction that no one is interested in him is wrong. If an old man starts to show a young man the ropes...
...because he can't remember the color of the wallpaper in the living room. By this time you will have thought of several more convincing reasons to leave Snow, but director Richard Neame wisely does not dwell on these, bustling back to Capitol Hill, where Snow (rarely one to sulk) is passionately trying to convince Loomis and the rest of the gang to hear a case against Omnitech, a multinational corporation whose president has allegedly made off with patents to a new gyroscope engine. Snow and Loomis argue...
Appointment in Samarra. A young American husband succeeds in pulling himself out of a sulk in time to keep a date with the orthodontist...