Word: caning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Women of the World is another collage from Italian Director Gualtiero Jacopetti (Mondo Cane), who pieces together snippets of film with an eye to the ironies of adjacency. On some cutting-room floor he found a covey of beauties, crones, trulls, trollops, moms, boss ladies, drabs, drudges, and just plain broads, and he has put side by side on the screen the anatomical, clinical and professional details of their lives. Women's charms include: a Japanese operation in which breasts are pumped up with liquid paraffin; a trip through a Los Angeles falsie factory; a window-shopping tour...
Topsy-Turvy Recollections. Ved Mehta's approach is refreshingly direct. Although he has been blind since the age of three, he courageously taught himself to navigate the world without benefit of cane or canine, studied at Pomona College and Oxford. Stopping off in London recently, and finding philosophers bickering and historians snicker-sneering at each other from behind the learned journals, he resolved to talk to them all and see what the fuss was about...
...their dislike of taking orders from anyone, they know that frequently in the hem of his natty blue cape is sewn enough buckshot to break a man's-and sometimes a woman's-nose. They have seen him wading into a crowd flailing a 6-ft. riot cane like a scythe...
Because of sugar's peculiar marketing arrangements, the reaction in the marketplace to the prospects of a shortage was more violent than the facts warranted. Most of the big sugar-using nations grow enough beet or cane sugar to supply a great part of their own needs, and they contract in advance to import the extra sugar they need. The result is that only about 10% of the world's requirements are sought for on the open market. The bidding by so many for this small amount started the price rise; and when the U.S. last month declared...
...Mondo Cane. The bite of this documentary of depravity is even worse than its bark: the thesis that the world has gone to the dogs...