Word: burningly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Suicide in closeup is not something every moviegoer will want to see. But for those susceptible to such morbid fascinations, The Fire will burn with infernal allure. It will also be cheered by connoisseurs of cinema as a redoubt able tour de technique, the most considerable accomplishment of France's Louis Malle (The Lovers). But to many others the film will surely seem more lecture than picture...
...Auto Club championships; a year later he won the Indy 500. Now 29, Foyt is a $100,000-a-year man, the king of the oval tracks and the "big cars"-the burly Offenhauser roadsters that have only two gears (low and high), turn only to the left, burn a gallon of exotic fuel every four miles...
...love that her husband cannot supply. As the woman's words and fragrant breath filter through the grille of the confessional, Giovanni is strangely excited. "I did not yearn to rest again in the safety of God's embrace, in his light and peace. I wanted to burn in the fire of love...
...Burn he does, in the bedroom of his penitent for many a clandestine night. But love of woman, like love of God, can eventually cool. The mysteries of the confessional stripped away, the couple see each other for what they are: rather drab, aging, unattractive people. The "holy night of love" turns into a quarrelsome hell. The lady returns to the church. Giovanni, now defrocked, joins a ship of cutthroats, who plunder and murder but who, at least, have no illusions about themselves. "The sea is the only thing I do feel is holy," says Giovanni. "However it may storm...
...made legal history. When he heard liquid dripping from the broken bottles, said Jack Newby, driver of the soft-drink truck, he was seized with a terrible fear that his gasoline tanks had ruptured. The dripping recalled a wreck he had witnessed years before, when he watched two people burn to death in a fire fed by gasoline. As a result of his fright in the cab of his truck, Newby sank into a fearful, suspicious, irritable state that psychiatrists recognized as psychotic. Claiming that he was unable to work, he sued the other trucking company...