Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buttoned collar and huge bow tie. His métier is sick slapstick. He gets laughs by biting off a neighbor's hangnail or hitting an old lady with a custard pie-not in the face, but up under her arm, as if the pie were a small bucket...
...lesser troubles. For example, instead of remaining a simple documentary, it tries to have a plot. There is a made-up story about a divorcee who comes to Los Angeles, and the story serves as a thread for the movie's savage comments on life in this bucket of human crabs. The thin story and the perceptive camera's eye rarely support each other. For the plot gives the divorcee's sufferings a point, when the documentary is shrieking all the time that they have no point. Towards the end of the story, it even seems likely that...
...that they aren't different, and much of this movie's rage seems wasted. In the end, you can take The Savage Eye's values, or you can leave them. It certainly makes no attempt to persuade you of them. You can condemn the West Coast as a bucket of obscene crabs--the way The Savage Eye does--or you can see its people as men trying to make the best of a new order of things. Either way of looking at them is valid, and that is why The Savage Eye seems so unfair...
...start of hostilities that the Portuguese were under orders to wage a scorched-earth campaign. Only real damage that the Portuguese inflicted was to blow up the main water pipes outside of Pangim. Each guest at Pangim's Mandavi Hotel last week was given a single bucket of rusty well water to shave and bathe, and bootleg water sold at one rupee (14 cents) per pail. Obviously overmatched, and equipped with armored vehicles that were little better than museum pieces, the Portuguese defenders had surrendered quietly, and by last week they were packed off to prisoner-of-war camps...
...quieter time. In Indiana everyone cut his own tree in the woods and decorated it with strings of popcorn, gingerbread men, chains of red and green paper, and small colored candles (it was a worrisome thing for Father, who planted himself in a nearby chair with a bucket of water at hand). On Christmas Eve the whole town went to church to see the tableaux of the Nativity performed by the Sunday School children, draped in tablecloths, piano covers and nightgowns. Next morning came the presents (usually clothing); some, such as heavy coats and shoes, were store-bought...