Oddly, it's the British, often stereotyped as almost dottily prim and proper, who keep putting their Yank cousins in an often laughably uptight light.
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Instead, for most of last week, they looked dottily remote and badly in need of the guidance that flowed up from the streets instead of down from Balmoral.
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And in 1961 there was " The Innocents, " an expectedly fascinating version of " The Turn of the Screw, " also arriving through a stage intermediary, with Deborah Kerr dottily triumphant as governess to two spooked children.