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Word: uppish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their spouses (Cynthia Harris and Andrew Duncan) are more hang-backish - or hung-uppish. But it is Lynne Lipton who precipitates the movie's sketch-sized dramatic crisis. How, she inquires, can she have an affair with a man whose wife has been such a good sport about losing at strip hide-and-go-seek? Ciardi sulks, then has a mystical experience in which one of the heavenly host informs him that, up there, adultery ranks with crimes like parking in a loading zone. Thus reassured, the couple almost manages to do the fashionable thing - only to be defeated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Summer Sanity | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

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