Word: untoward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After playing the first five holes without any untoward incident. Raffi took a triple-bogey six on the par three 6th. The Winchester native, clad in canary yellow from head to toe, crushed his six-iron from the tee, but it hit the embankment just short of the green and rolled back into Casco Bay. He played his lost ball shot from the ladies' tee and this time banked a nine-iron over the green...
...investigators are elated by the results, but they caution that questions remain. For one thing, does the drug have any untoward side effects after prolonged use? It is known that kindred chemicals can produce birth defects in animals. Thus the drug faces at least two or three years of careful testing before it can be marketed. Still, for those with recurring severe acne, that may not be too long a wait to be spared a lifetime of misery...
...period in 1926 when Agatha Christie, that shy and eminently respectable mystery writer, seemed to disappear off the face of the earth, becoming the object of a very noisy hue and cry in England before she was found, volunteering (as she never did) no explanation for the only untoward incident in her otherwise gray tweed life. Actually, the true subjects of this movie, based on a story by Co-Scenarist Tynan, are cloche hats, potted palms, brass-and wood-fitted motorcars and, above all, the manners, styles and quaint equipment to be found a half-century ago in an expensive...
...Band. The music is reminiscent of a player piano in an Old Western saloon. The visual accompaniments--particularly the closing shots of The Band, alone on a strangely-lit stage, playing the insipid theme--attempt to evoke a feeling of free-floating nostalgia. This final scene adds an untoward note of solemnity to the affair; Scorsese would have been better off closing with the final number of the concert, the full-company rendition of "I Shall Be Released." The desired arty effect appears both pretentious and rather silly. In another inexplicable scene, The Band plays a pretty song with EmmyLou...
...more infectious in the theater than spontaneous good fun and the warm feeling of sharing the evening with amusing, if slightly disreputable friends. Even by theatrical proxy, there is a certain insidious charm and exoticism in experiencing, through staged illusion, the magic of venturing into forbidden places and untoward happenings that might rarely have been accessible, or perhaps acceptable, in ordinary life. Despite its concupiscent locale and a generous quota of oft-deleted words, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is a font of fun and friendliness...