Word: assed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everybody in the picture who disapproves of homosexuals proves to be an ass, a dolt or a sadist. Nowhere does the film suggest that homosexuality is a serious (but often curable) neurosis that attacks the biological basis of life itself. "I can't help the way I am," says one of the sodomites in this movie. "Nature played me a dirty trick." And the scriptwriters, whose psychiatric information is clearly coeval with the statute they dispute, accept this sick-silly self-delusion as a medical fact...
Both Guy's place and his personal battle grew increasingly ambiguous. The Halberdiers teemed with weird Waugh characters-from one-eyed, ruthless Brigadier Ritchie-Hook through Trimmer, an ex-hairdresser on the Aquitania. to the knowledgeable ass, Apthorpe, whose portable jakes provides Waugh with an outlet for numerous excursions into scatology. Hapless Guy inadvertently kills him at the end with the gift of a bottle of whisky when Apthorpe was suffering from fever...
...himself. He has a lot to mention and not much to say. As an officer in a camouflage outfit, Churchill was on the beaches at Dunkirk-he later painted the scene-but his description is insipid. His family thought little of his love affairs -they called it "playing the ass in the bulrushes"-and he went on to have four wives. His family thought equally little of his desire to become a painter-they called it "playing the ass in the gutter" -and he went on to a career that has been something less than spectacular. Whether writing about...
...mostly because he is afraid to rock the boat. When she runs off to assignations he stays home to mind the babies; when she comes home he tells her how fresh her skin looks, how bright her eyes are. And sometimes, wretched to the core, he even makes an ass of himself in public to satisfy her need for a fool to deceive...
...hero is first seen as a hotheaded and rather surly 17-year-old who is already the favorite apprentice of the local master painter in Leyden and is conceited enough to blurt: "Either I am a second Michelangelo or I'm an ass!" What follows is the detailed story of his success (when he wins his first noble patron), his failure (when his celebrated Night Watch insults prominent members of the local militia, whose faces he partially hid in the background), and his Job-like sufferings. One by one, father, mother, crippled brother and spinster sister go to their...