Word: bileful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movies, including Sounder and Hoa Binh) are hopeless much-headed idealists, overwhelmed by uplift. But the critics Mad Andrew wrote about are figments of his imagination, since the only famous critics who praised the film (Kael and Kauffmann) are rigorous, not at all the "melting marsh-mallows" of his bile-ridden column. Sarris took potshots at the actual Conroy as well as at the film and its defenders, vaguely condemning him--though rhetorically denying it--for being young, energetic, individualistic, and anti-establishment. (Everything film critics are not, these days...
Inevitably, the alcoholic develops a fatty liver, and his chances of developing cirrhosis, a condition in which liver cells have been replaced by fibrous scar tissue, are at least one in ten. A severely damaged liver cannot adequately manufacture bile, which is necessary for the digestion of fats; as a consequence, the alcoholic often feels weak and suffers from chronic indigestion. This may be made worse by gastritis, which is caused by alcohol irritation of the sensitive linings of the stomach and small intestine. The troubles of a heavy drinker do not end there, and through damage to the central...
...blacks get kid-glove treatment from Percy compared to poor whites, for whom he saves his real bile. In the Southern scheme of things, Percy wrote, there are three rigid classes--in descending order, aristocratic whites, blacks and "white trash." It seemed natural and proper to Percy that the aristocratic whites, being wise and educated, should lead--almost regardless of encumbrances like free elections. The aristocrats, he wrote, "were leaders of the people, not elected or self-elected, but destined, under the compulsion of leadership because of their superior intellect, training, character and opportunity...
Josie's father Phil' (Handel's) is a bantam rooster of a Connecticut pig farmer with a tongue that spits black Irish bile at his Yankee neighbors. Phil is Tyrone's tenant, and he mistakenly fears that the scapegrace James intends to sell the farm. He baits a sex trap. Josie and James will be found in bed together. James will do the right thing and marry her. She will inherit the farm...
...also marriage itself. The trouble with it, according to Germi, is mostly women. That is the trouble with the movie, too, in a way. It is constructed around a sour, myopic kind of misogyny, not quite deft or witty enough to cut through the un pleasant taste of bile...