Word: bastardizes
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Most of the movie takes place during one awful night in the sleepless imagination of a dying novelist (played with fierce relish by John Gielgud). Trying to construct a final fiction, his mind keeps moving his son (Bogarde), his son's wife (Ellen Burstyn), his bastard progeny (David Warner) and his own dead wife (Elaine Stritch) around a mythical country. His vision of his dear ones is, to say the least, misanthropic. They are cold, loveless creatures, incapable of responding to one another except by lobbing epigrams, Wildean in rhythm but not in wit, back and forth...
...Ronald L. of New York City as 16 men and one woman listened solemnly. "I used to bet on everything, even the turnstiles at a ball game," he confessed. Then, in a quivering tone, Harold B. told the group: "I degraded myself in every way. I robbed like a bastard." His voice dropped to a whisper. "I was nothing more than a piece of garbage...
...want" becomes "I have everything I need." Traditionalists may find that in the process some of the poetry of the standard versions has been clarified out of existence. Often the results are blunt indeed: "Gossip is so tasty! How we love to swallow it!" (Proverbs 26: 22); or "You bastard!" (in I Samuel...
...works, of the inability to interiorize, and of treating people like chessmen, even checkers. Paths of Glory serves as an ample refutation to that. He has also been accused of not knowing how to work actors, of demeaning them and consciously turning them into furniture. The old fascist bastard Adolphe Menjou has an answer to that. He said that the only director who worked actors as sensitively as Kubrick was the director of his 1923 film. A Woman of Paris, Charles Chaplin. Kirk Douglas gives a good performance, and Ralph Meeker, waiting for the firing squad, squashes a cockroach with...
...words from the altar were anything but pious or loyal. Instead, the priest, Roman Catholic Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, 70, coolly denounced the Vatican for having entered an "adulterous marriage" with "revolution and subversion." As a result, charged the prelate, "The rite of Mass today is a bastard rite. The sacraments today are bastard sacraments. We want to have prayers like our ancestors. We want to keep the Catholic faith." After an hour of such remonstrations, Lefebvre began the Mass in Latin, according to the four-century-old Tridentine rite, now superseded and banned by Rome...