Word: swinish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...characters sound intriguing. There is a rich, young widow, Marie Forbes, who yearns to do good by performing positive actions; she starts on her career "quite purposefully" killing her swinish husband with a heart attack -resulting presumably from sexual exertion. The author builds her characterization by having her use foul language as often as possible. But as Mark Twain once remarked of his wife's swearing, "she has the words but not the tune...
...level of working as a cleaning woman in a Nazi-run brothel. He first blunders into the girls' shower room-giving Brynych an excuse for a breathtaking study of the splash and spray of water on naked female forms. Later, the camera encounters a nightmare revel of swinish soldiers among whom the girls are herded like cattle before being returned to their stalls. In a corner, Braun comes upon the body, ignored by all the revelers, of a girl who has killed herself...
...simply rare and therefore of monetary value; when a nation had enough, it became rich. The Indians were astonished at this attitude, and surmised that the white men had some physical disease that could only be cured by gold. The Inca Emperor Atahualpa had to ransom himself from the swinish Spanish Adventurer Pizarro with a roomful of the stuff-13,000 lbs., all told. (For his pains, Atahualpa was strangled.) Indifferently, the Spaniards melted art into bullion; their pillage increased Europe's gold supply by 20%, part of which went to finance the ill-fated Armada. To the modern...
...politician are bound together. Director Nilsson has tried, with considerable success, to express in 76 minutes much more than can be stated explicitly in that time. His film bears a heavy load of symbolism, of scenes such as the one in which swinish revelers set fire to one lavish apartment and then reel off drunkenly to another. Visions of a society's dying past and corrupt present unfold themselves long after the film is over. It is not society, however, but Actress Daniel's journey from innocence to disillusion that is the core of the story...
When he stands up like a tired man, tottering near and near; When he stands up as pleading, in wavering, man-brute guise, When he veils the hate and cunning of his little, swinish eyes; When he shows as seeking quarter, with paws like hands in prayer, That is the time of peril-the time of the Truce of the Bear...