Word: celling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scenes between Moreau and Hamilton, she looks like a tiger, he like a saint, and it's disgusting. In their first carnal encounter she breaks into his prison cell where he stands crucified with ropes, rips off his shirt, and opens her blouse. We see their heads and nude shoulders in a close-up, then as she drops from the frame his gentle, bearded face falls to his shoulders in a Christian Passion pose. In this, as in his zooms on wounds, Malle at times seems eager to wrench his film from its genre, creating a tension it doesn...
...world has ever known, atheist to the point of fanaticism, in fact, that is what I am like, and once again, kill me or take me as I am, for I shall not change." Rejection of God seems to have exhausted his powers of skepticism. In his lonely circular cell he became a devout numerologist, and solemnly counted the words or lines in letters he received as a basis for abstruse and totally nutty calculations that would provide, he believed, the exact date of his release. His number never came up. He died of a pulmonary congestion in the asylum...
...arrival by asking his Congress to send 2,000 troops to South Viet Nam-and South Korea. At an official luncheon in Canberra, Harold Holt, Australia's new Prime Minister, gave him such a warm introduction that the tanned but tired traveler confessed: "You touched the favorite nerve cell in my body-namely, the talking cell." Whereupon the Vice President delivered yet another speech. He reassured his audience that, despite Senator Fulbright's damaging confession Down Under that he was unaware of Australia's troop commitment to Viet Nam, the U.S. is grateful for the Diggers there...
...Allied captors at Nürnberg, the Field Marshal seemed to be the essence of all that was evil in Junkerdom. Tall and taciturn, a monocle screwed tight in one chilly pale eye, his boots gleaming with metronomic precision as he paced the stone floor of his cell, the prisoner never complained and never begged for mercy. When the gallows trap was sprung on Oct. 16, 1946, and Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel dropped to his death, it is doubtful that he had any regrets. Keitel had long before reached the end of his rope...
...Shortcomings. Keitel considered it himself but decided against it. "The armed forces," he wrote in his Nürnberg cell, "would have labeled me a deserter and a coward. Hitler himself chose death rather than accept responsibility. For him to have committed suicide when he knew he was defeated . . . for him to have left it to a subordinate to account for his auto cratic and arbitrary actions, these two shortcomings will remain forever incomprehensible to me. They are my final disillusion...