Word: anus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When I say that, in my opinion, Duarte is not a leftist but rather a centrist, he pounds the table: "The political center is like an anus: it is round and it stinks." His scatological images delight his audiences. He turns to me with a challenge: "I'll publicly bet you that I'll win the elections. If I become President, the penalty is you have to write a novel about El Salvador. If I lose, I'll give you one colón." The clear implication is that a novel of mine is worth...
...American Gothic (in fact, it was painted ten years earlier). Scholz took care to spread his political insult as far as pos sible; Weimar inflation is symbolized by the cretinous child, snot-nosed and snaggletoothed, blowing up a live frog by means of a straw stuck in its anus. In the end, one would need to be half a thug to be politically swayed by such an image...
...film's real vulgarity lies not so much in its gratuitous sex and violence as it does in the hugeness of the production and its arrogant pomposity. Forget the castration scene, the oozing entrails, the close-ups of women urinating, the slow motion vomiting, the fist rammed up the anus. The real obscenity is the amount of money spent on the gallons of fake blood and the tons of naked flesh used in the film; the amount of money needed to waste the talents of such fine performers as Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, Helen Mirren, and Sir John Gielgud...