Word: whims
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...butlers, white pianos and canopied beds. Like animated editorial cartoons, their opposition was always a vested-and usually watch-chained-interest on the order of Edward Arnold. The heroine-Barbara Stanwyck or Jean Arthur-spoke with a catch in her throat that accented her vulnerability. But she had a whim of iron, and when she urged John Doe or Mr. Smith to Washington, the nation's laws were rewritten on the spot. As the Girl Friday, she was the flip, half-emancipated helpmeet to the strong but bumbling American Male...
...nuclear-sub fleet, carried only two buoys mounted on cables fore and aft to mark her position in the event of disaster, plus a handful of flares that must be fired to the surface and a pair of radio beacons mounted on floats. These drift about at the whim of wind and tide broadcasting in Morse code for only about six hours the ominous message: "S O S-sub sunk...
...dark world: "My Friday evening's footsteps plodding dully through this black town are far far away now from the world that I'm in. My eyes are listening to some sounds that I think just might be springtime. With daffodils between my toes, I'm laughing at their whim...
...almost-middle-aged woman who is old enough to understand Robert, and yet so much younger than Candice, the shallow, suave worldling. Catherine reminds one of Julie Christie in Billy Liar--a woman so loving that she will sacrifice her love to her man's happiness...or his whim...
Robert is certainly a man driven by whim, the archetypal French man-of-the-world, and most of his character is lack of character. In the end, he discovers the character he has been hiding, and can no longer live with his counterpart Candice. She is the perfect Frenchman's American, and utters such lines as: "I always sleep well...when I'm in your arms," with consummate American soppiness. Yet Robert's infatuation is not unbelievable, for Candice's smiles are home-movie--and natural...