Word: asylums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...madness in the book almost reaches the point of being ridiculous. Here too, the ability of the Marias (or at least of one of them) to see themselves objectively just saves them, and they stick in an intentionally ridiculous vignette of a woman who is committed to an asylum after her parents find her locked in copulation with a large...
...pickpocket and the cosmopolitan "financier." Stavisky affects history in a way a pickpocket cannot, Resnais maintains; I'affaire Stavisky, when it's blasted out of the water, shakes the Popular Front Government of Leon Blum and forces the deportation of Leon Trotsky, who until then had enjoyed political asylum in France. Resnais asks us to believe that Trotsky could have held the European Left together by his commanding presence--and here I fail to follow him, for it is far from certain that Trotsky's location had such resonant historical consequences. And it seems likely that the Stavisky scandal...
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...Spinola, the conservative general who led the revolt against Portugal's 45 near dictatorship last April, flew to Spain by helicopter for asylum Spanish military sources said he was placed under security at a Spanish air base near the frontier. He was ousted by left-leaning generals in September...
...mercy-hurting herself in order to help another person." But whether Schneider, who has already been dropped from Bertolucci's 1900, will keep her current job is unclear. "It is the first time I have had to go see an actress in an asylum," said Ponti. "This affair is very sad-humanly...