Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apparent that only about 2/3 of the 3500 people were Wallace partisans. A large sprinkling of "I make noise, therefore, I exist" liberals were in the ballroom discussing George's crimes, Gene's virtues, and the disarming simplicity of the rubes who had come to hear the Bad...
...irascible wit and a fanged tongue, he spews out tirades of paranoia. A self-pitying child of rage and fear, he drowns his panic in alcohol. He courts oblivion in lust-the bed is his womb and his coffin. He wakes with jittery remorse to smell death's bad breath at dawn. On the self-accusing charge of having made his existence an obscenity, this anti-hero sits in a prisoner's dock watching his life pass like a funeral cortege...
There is a wry philosophical idea behind Happy End: since everything in life normally goes from bad to worse, reversing the action will automatically ameliorate the human condition by making things go from worse to merely bad. Thus the film opens with a closeup of the hero's head in a coffin. The camera moves back to show that there is no body attached. Hands lift the head, and place it in a basket, from which it leaps upward to a guillotine where it attaches itself to a body, which takes a last look at the world...
...premature. While Hollywood bravely hurls words like "fag" across the screen, most of the homosexuals shown so far are sadists, psychopaths or buffoons. If the actors are mincing more than the dialogue these days, that may only be because Hollywood has run out of conventional bad guys...
...there: "Cruelty, poverty, suspicion, persecution, formed the very air we breathed ... I felt that everything that I valued in human life was being destroyed in the interests of a glib and narrow philosophy." Of his stay in prerevolutionary China in 1920-21, he writes: "It must be said that bad government seems somewhat less disastrous in China than it would be in a European nation, but this is perhaps a superficial impression which time may correct...