Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GOOD TIME. Bill Naughton has fashioned a tenderly perceptive human comedy out of a single, obvious and slightly quaint-sounding joke: the inability of a pair of provincial newlyweds to consummate their marriage. Where Naughton and a comic wonder of a cast succeed is in bringing back the theater's vanishing breed-real people...
...kind of award that can wreck a girl's image in the movies these days. So no wonder Elke Sommer, 24, said she was "very surprised" when the California Fashion Designers decided to name her the "best-dressed star of 1965." Elke recovered quickly enough to say graciously that she was also "very flattered and very thrilled. I like pretty clothes like every woman does." However, she continued thoughtfully, "I got all the publicity when I didn't wear them...
...comic wonder of a cast, Marjorie Rhodes, as the bridegroom's mother, is the standout, batting out a caustic aside with a batted eyelash. If Father Wolfit is the cakes and ale of the play, Mother Rhodes is its gin and bitters. But the entire evening belongs to blessedly real people who are not crammed with half-baked oddities but full of bread-fed humanity...
...know a retired policeman on the vice squad in New York City. He told me they used to beat up prisoners with rubber hoses, but he insisted that they did it only to prisoners they knew were guilty. I wonder how prevalent in the U.S. today this philosophy is among policemen...
...Since I was once a member of the Palisades In group, I feel justified in commenting on your article. The Saracens were described as motorcycling hoods. Not many of them have motorcycles, and their appearance is not hoodish. I wonder why adults complain so constantly about teenage drinking, sex, etc., when they are the ones who introduced it all to us. These things have been given to us on a silver platter and have been just about shoved down our throats. I'm not saying we are right in accepting them, but I am saying it's hard...