Word: shamming
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...order to fulfill self-illusions; to try to translate their dreamworlds into some sort of physical actuality. Genet then projects his whorehouse onto a political plan and asserts that Change on this planet can never amount to progress, for it is merely illusion. He equates change to the sham and artificiality of the brothel in a perplexing and unconvincing way. Jose Quintero's direction is generally sloppy, and does little to clarify or enhance Genet's work...
Thus the entire debate on Cuba is a sham, as divorced from reality as anything Fidel Castro has ever said. And while the spurious debate flickers on about what the U.S. should do (when it can do nothing) so does another sham--the American embargo on Cuba trade. This is a sham, because the major commodities in the once-flourishing Cuba-U.S. trade had already been closed off prior to the embargo, and because American shippers are already transferring the few essential items that Cuba still needs from this country through Canada, which has publicly stated that it will...
...learn very quickly that the city cousin knows the real joys of bourgeois living, and we are given a sweeping view of his universe of pimps, party-dolls, and sham. In the midst of all this, the country cousin (who spends most of his time writing home to Mama) falls in love with a used beauty (Julliette Mayniel) who appears none-the-worse for wear. The impossible longings of Charles for this girl are well-portrayed, but the plot is foreshadowed to death. Charles loses the girl, flunks his exams, and dies. Both reality and destiny are against him. Paul...
What frustrates him for months is that the raider is not a U-boat at all, but a heavily armed surface vessel well disguised as a merchantman. The raider, the Atlantis, flies whatever flag is convenient, and carries its sham to the point of decking seamen out as female passengers-wigs, parasols and all. When a target is sighted, the Atlantis steams close by, runs up the swastika and lowers the false packing cases which hide its guns. The raider's captain, played by Van Heflin, is a gentleman who, in his student days, rowed against Cambridge...
...although it concerns Franz Liszt, is not called The Franz Liszt Story. The second is that Dirk Bogarde, who plays the 19th century pianist-composer, has learned to waggle his fingers in convincing imitation of a virtuoso in full cadenza. The innovation is not negligible; it eliminates that hoary sham in which the cameraman shoots from behind the piano while the actor at the keyboard moves his arms up and down as if he were washing a pair of socks...