Word: uptightness
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Belle du Jour. directed by Luis Bunuel with Catherine Deneuve. An uptight bourgeois Parisian housewife acts out her prostitution fantasies. Bunuel jumbles the real and the fake, the conscious and unconscious, the storybook and dream in a powerful satire-study of psychological repression and the perversions it breeds. Harvard Square...
Belle du Jour. directed by Luis Bunuel with Catherine Deneuve. An uptight bourgeois Parisian housewife acts out her prostitution fantasies. Bunuel jumbles the real and the fake, the conscious and unconscious, the storybook and dream in a powerful satire-study of psychological repression and the perversions it breeds. Harvard Square...
Calkins said he thought his name was placed on the list because he opposed the Nixon Vietnam policy and because he advocated school integration. "I suspect Vietnam had more to do with it because the White House is more uptight about the war," he said...
...Amarillo's great strength at the poker table is his ability to stay loose and observe his opponents keenly. No matter what the stakes, he keeps up an amiable chatter with other players. "Some of these guys play the games real uptight," he says; "it's so quiet you could hear an ant pee on cotton. But Ah like to shake 'em up, put a rattlesnake in their pocket and ask 'em for a match...
...that he carried the athletic metaphor to excess. "You can't be relaxed," he said. "The Redskins were relaxed in their last game of the regular season, and they were flat, and they got clobbered. You must be up for the great events. Up but not uptight. Having done it so often, I perhaps have a finer-honed sense of this. But you can overdo it, overtrain and leave your fight in the dressing room...