Word: inverted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...johns in the middle of the movie--leaving Violet being and leaving us wondering why she did it, and where we missed something. Less self-explanatory still is David Carradine's portrayal of the photographer-suitor, Bellocq. When he first intrudes on them the house madame calls him an "invert"--he begins to just hang around, looking less like a sinister voyeur than a dazed peanut vendor at a ballpark. The scene where he finally admits his love for Violet lacks both preparation and emotion: I'm all yours, Violet," he says--but Carradine doesn't seem...
...take their author like warm milk at bedtime, cozily oblivious to the ground glass of her ironies and tough-mindedness. Perhaps only a Janeite would be capable of completing Sanditon-and this version is certainly a skillful pastiche-but at the same time, perhaps only a Janeite could so invert its value. In an afterword, the Other Lady praises Austen for the elegant escapism she provides from "the shoddy values and cheap garishness...
Medicine still has no cure for this inherited illness. But a team of Michigan medical researchers has just announced a discovery that offers new relief for sickle-cell sufferers. By treating the patient with a solution of urea and invert sugar, say the researchers, the sickling tendency can be reversed and the misshapen cells returned to normal...
...coherence. Scenes are shifted, new ones are added, characters are blunted or sharpened. Still, Fellini has left the Petronian framework intact. Like almost all his social satire, Satyricon is a picaresque journey through the beds and banquet hails of Rome. Now Encolpius skirmishes for the affections of the young invert Giton (Max Born); now impotent, he whimpers about his "blunted sword"; now he overstuffs his gullet at a vulgarian's feast; now he is a starveling captive aboard a slave ship...