Word: uppishness
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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...
...itself. Instead, photography is always in support of some well though-out gag, reinforcing its humor to give the dividend of trickery. For instance, the narrator lists the subjects of his study on a blackboard, by pointing his finger the writing appearing by itself. But the blackboard gets uppish and keeps listing lecturers along with the other categories of ores and pests. The author's gag and trick photography combine for a laugh, though neither is particularly amusing alone...
...habits with absorbing intensity. The league's opinion: white lines might help the Post Office protect public property, and do not infringe a dog's natural rights. "Of course, if they began painting a white line around every tree, we might begin to be a bit uppish," said the league secretary...
...Marx, Engels, commissars or strikes. He was polite, played squash, drank bourbon and once enlivened a New Washington Hotel stag party by dropping to his heels and doing the "kazatski." After he had been in Seattle a while (he came in 1942), some people who had been a little uppish about Russians began to think better of them...
...some of the best entries have plots. A good one: Mary King's The White Bull, in which a farmer and his family declare war on a magnificent white Brahma bull owned by an uppish neighbor...