Word: waspish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fortunate, and seems curiously unsympathetic in helping to turn his marriage into a fray-for-all. Happily, whenever the strife skitters closer to tragedy than comedy, Director Stanley Donen takes the viewer's eye off the brawl by ushering in William Daniels and Eleanor Bron parodying a WASPish American and his shrewish wife, or Claude Dauphin, whose jet-set bore is a perfect putdown...
Swann is a bespectacled cricket on a piano bench. He and his piano both chirp. Flanders, confined to a wheelchair by polio, looks like a maharajah temporarily deprived of his turban, bearers and ceremonial umbrella. He possesses the slightly disdainful aplomb, though not the waspish irascibility of a black-bearded Monty Woolley. When the two sing together in revue style, their words dance-whether it be a mock blues about the unrequited love of a nearsighted armadillo for an abandoned tank or a toast to the second law of thermodynamics in a foaming Einstein of boozy intellectual suds that tweaks...
...electing John Kennedy their first Roman Catholic President, U.S. voters swatted down the WASPish fetish that religion is automatically a criterion for presidential or vice-presidential candidacy. The Republicans may give tradition a further gig in 1968. Michigan Governor George Romney, a Mormon, is one of the most promising possibilities for the Republican presidential nomination. For geographic balance alone, the G.O.P. might well pick Romney's new but warm friend, New York Senator Jacob Javits, as his running mate, there by setting up an unprecedentedly balanced, Mormon-Jewish ticket...
CACTUS FLOWER. Like most Gallic romantic comedies, this farce is based on three things: lies, lies, lies. A Don Juanish dentist (Barry Nelson) tells them with aplomb. His gullible mistress (Brenda Vaccaro) accepts them with compassion. And his waspish nurse (Lauren Bacall) uncovers them with delight...
CACTUS FLOWER. Like most Gallic romantic comedies, this farce is based on three things: lies, lies, lies. A Don Juanish dentist (Barry Nelson) tells them with aplomb. His gullible mistress (Brenda Vaccaro) accepts them with compassion. And his waspish nurse (Lauren Bacall) uncovers them with delight...