Word: upright
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reports that the once dignified, upright Mills, married to his wife Polly for 40 years, was drinking heavily and carousing in Washington nightspots had been circulating for months. The rumors became public scandal after the Tidal Basin incident of last October, when Mills' car was stopped late at night by Washington police. The car contained five passengers, including Mills and Mrs. Annabella Battistella, 38, a frequent companion of his in the past year, who worked as a striptease dancer at a Washington nightclub under the name of Fanne Fox. Fanne leaped from the car, ran toward a small estuary...
Powerful and daring minds are now beginning to struggle upright, to fight their way out from under the heap of antiquated rubbish. But even they still bear all the cruel marks of the branding iron, they are still cramped by the stocks into which they were forced when they were half grown. And because of our intellectual disunity, they have no one to measure themselves against...
...FACT you have to swim, because an upright analytical approach to this graceful and observant film will leave you cold and bored. It's not, as some have charged, that Altman has nothing to say. He's got plenty, but he wouldn't be able to write it down. Here he shows us the mood of gambling culture in California (which is not just the gamblers) without bothering us with a moral. There's a music in the way gamblers talk with each other and, more telling, the way they talk to themselves. When a singing voice finally enters...
...they should drive men into quite such acute frenzies of greed are matters that the film makers have chosen to keep pretty much to themselves. Giddy fun, usually provided by such matinee fodder, is also in short supply. The star is Joe Don Baker, a sort of upright Francis the Talking Mule, who appeared in Walking Tall wielding a baseball bat and busting heads. Here, as a Hong Kong soldier-of-fortune, he betrays an enthusiasm for breaking glass, either by shattering windshields with a two-by-four or hurling people through skylights. He performs all these feats with...
...great consternation brought about in Continental society by the appearance of Daisy Miller (Cybill Shepherd), a rich American girl touring Europe with her mother (Cloris Leachman) and bratty little brother (James McMurtry). Daisy flirts openly with a gaudy Italian opportunist, causing something of a scandal, while teasing an upright young American expatriate named Winterbourne (Barry Brown). The latter observes, with a mixture of melancholy and enchantment, her flouting of convention, and feels drawn to her. Daisy eventually catches "the Roman fever" late at night in the Colosseum, and dies of the figurative effects of culture shock...