Word: bleeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...body turned up six weeks later in the trunk of an Oldsmobile on Chicago's South Side. His arms had been bound, his neck slashed and a rope tied next to the wound to slow the flow of blood. Explained one investigator: "They forced him to watch himself bleed to death...
Created in 1831 by King Louis-Philippe, the legion was conceived as a force of foreign mercenaries battling for France abroad. Declared Louis's Minister of War: "So they wish to fight -then let them bleed and shovel sand in the conquest of North Africa." The legionnaires spearheaded France's colonial ambitions-conquering Algeria, subduing Morocco, then going on to incursions in Mexico and Indochina. In victory, the legion created a legend. In 1837, one battalion seized the supposedly impenetrable Algerian citadel of Constantine, perched atop a 1,000-ft. crag. Half a century later, another Foreign Legion...
Street Hassle hits with the kind of honesty that made Sgt. Pepper, Surrealistic Pillow and Let It Bleed classics. This is music that is so accurate and honest in its expression that it becomes part of what is going on in the world, rather than just an artful description. But perhaps most amazingly, Street Hassle achieves honesty and creativity without merging with jazz, blues, folk, rock-jazz, rhythm and blues, disco, for folk-rock--it's still just good rock'n'roll...
...film brings together assorted plot strands, the principal one involving Kirk Douglas as a former intelligence man, whose son, Robin, has been abducted by his former organization, presumably to be used as some kind of secret weapon (he makes foreign presidents' noses bleed--just kidding; actually, he can marshall quite a fury when mad). Douglas must elude the network of agents controlled by John Cassavetes, whose arm he crippled during the terrorist raid that begins the film, in which Robin is captured. Enter Gillian (Amy Irving), another telekinetic whom Cassavetes is grooming at a parapsychic institute to join Robin...
...Douglas during the first scene, taking in the surrounding beach area, it conveys with great subtlety the oncoming danger. DePalma stages the most powerful action sequence, the escape of Gillian from the parapsychic institute, in slowmotion, lingering over all the deaths. He characterizes his performers by how beautifully they bleed; a little snit in Gillian's school has blood dribble from her nose all over her lunch, but Carrie Snodgrass' blood splashes lovingly, lyrically over a windshield. Clearly, the more DePalma relishes his characters, the more he puts into their deaths. It would be nice to know something about...