Word: wet
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Seeing Rossellini's Open City did it. Overwhelmed by the director's neorealism, she wrote to offer herself as an actress: the only Italian she knew, she told him, was "ti amo." Their affair was inevitable, though its bliss was wet with her guilty tears. When she gave birth to Rossellini's child, Bergman became part of a warm and rackety Italian family, though nothing made up for the loss of young Pia, the daughter she had abandoned in Hollywood. She bore Rossellini a son and twin daughters. But the films she made with him were wretched...
DESPITE THE ABOVE, the Eaters, seeking to widen their appeal, have sanitized at least one of their songs. "My pants are soaking wet," Cataldo sings, from the "Girl Next Door." But while he still "sits and waits all day for her to walk his way," she is no longer explicitly invited to "sit down on my face," as was the case when the Eaters sang at The Rat; instead, Cataldo merely reminds us that he longs for "another taste" of said girl. While not in itself a major issue, this could signify a disturbing trend...
...ideals are Jeffersonian-farmers wander in and out of his collections, and inventors rank only below professional canoeists in his pantheon. Meet Richard Eckert, a man given to "gray suits, gray socks, black shoes, white shirts and Paisley ties," who invents the wave-tossed nuke while he is "standing wet, naked and soapy in his shower." This, perhaps, is inspiration of a sort, but a wet and soapy sort. Eckert came out of the shower, "ate his breakfast and told his wife, Joan, that he wanted to launch nuclear power plants as, in effect, ships on the ocean. 'There...
...best "Vietnam" film we have. The Americans who fought in Vietnam--more than any other war-quickly realized they were not fighting to win but to stay alive. Battle was no "John Wayne wet-dream," as Michael Herr called it in his Vietnam account, Dispatches. Even Fuller's narrator comments that the army doesn't award medals for protecting civilians but for killing Germans; in Vietnam, a high bodycount signalled victory. It is this attitude to survival that enables The Big Red One to bridge the gap between America's most glorious and most dishonorable wars...
...best "Vietnam" film we have. The Americans who fought in Vietnam--more than any other war-quickly realized they were not fighting to win but to stay alive. Battle was no "John Wayne wet-dream," as Michael Herr called it in his Vietnam account, Dispatches. Even Fuller's narrator comments that the army doesn't award medals for protecting civilians but for killing Germans; in Vietnam, a high bodycount signalled victory. It is this attitude to survival that enables The Big Red One to bridge the gap between America's most glorious and most dishonorable wars...