Word: towelled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economics of presidential aspirations crashed over Fred Harris last week. "I'm broke," the Oklahoma Democrat told a crowded press conference. Then he threw in the towel. Finances, however, were only the most visible symptom of much deeper trouble. In the 46 days since he declared, the Harris candidacy never got off the ground...
...Crimson, pictures Daytona Beach, from weekend college-beerdrinking crowds to V-formation flying birds. But Daytona isn't all beer and birds, it's sex, suds, sand and surf, and 23" Color T.V.'s for sale on beach walls. One couple, whose embrance is hidden by a towel draped over their heads, stands bare-kneed against the bumper of their car. Few draperies, in painting or in photography, say so much but show so little...
...exwife, whom he seduces in the linen closet of the country club. "There are no answers," he announces with the pride of someone who has solved the riddie of the Sphinx. "You've just got to start by starting." So saying, he takes Lisa, clad only in a towel, and charges across the well-populated lawn of the country club like Ben Braddock dashing out of the church. As Alren and Lisa jump into their car and head for a happy ending, a white towel comes sailing out the window and floats slowly to earth...
...message, if it can be called that, seems to be that the remedy for marital discord is a coupling in the linen closet, that rebellion is raising a ruckus at the country club, and that happiness is a discarded towel. As Turman and Scriptwriter Lorenzo Semple Jr. (Pretty Poison) go for the simple solution, they favor the easy laugh. "Relax, enjoy the air," Alren tells Lisa, and there is a quick cut to a truck spewing exhaust. There are, in addition, the usual number of shafts directed at high-priced psychiatrists, high-pressure businessmen and-everybody's favorite-middle...
...Mike Nichols' musical The Apple Tree, the biggest laugh came when the naked Adam bit the apple-and instantly snatched a towel to his loins. In a sense, all of Director Nichols' work, from Virginia Woolf to The Graduate and Catch-22, has included the same scene: knowledge precedes shame. On the surface, Nichols' new film, Carnal Knowledge, is an unfettered sexual farce. But the subtext carries the chill of fastidious puritanism: sex is dirty; touch it and you get a disease...