Word: chien
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...tawdry tale now gripping Asia is of a former mayor who secretly filmed his ex-girlfriend having sex with another man. A friend then sold the tape to a tabloid, which gave copies to readers in December. Last week, prosecutors filed invasion-of-privacy charges against Tsai Jen-Chien, Kuo Yu-Ling and nine newspaper staffers. The ex-girlfriend, reporter-turned-politician Chu Mei-Feng, published a tell-all book last week and has topped Web portal Lycos' list of most popular search terms for two weeks...
Shih then tracked down the Internet account used by Sadistic Dog. This led her to a Taipei resident named Chen, who disclosed that his former lover occasionally used his account. A month to the day after the suitcase appeared, detectives arrested Liao Chien-kai, an unemployed 25-year-old. After 20 hours of questioning, Liao admitted he had met Lin in the chatroom and arranged to get together for rough sex, though Lin had stated on line that he had "no experience" of such activities. They met at the bank and from there returned to Liao's apartment...
...Several of today's most prominent filmmakers betray the influence of Buñuel. David Lynch's radically bizarre first feature, "Eraserhead," couldn't have existed without the example of Buñuel's rulebreaking Surrealist masterwork "Un Chien Andalou" (1929), directed with Salvador Dali. Pedro Almodovar's deliciously ripe melodramas contain numerous elements first found in Buñuel's Mexican work from the 1950s; in fact, key sequences from Buñuel's giddily psychotic "The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz" (1955) are incorporated into Almodovar's "Live Flesh" (1997). And former Monty Python member Terry...
...protests to the contrary, one can see the same images appear again and again in his films, from "Chien andalou" to "That Obscure Object": insects; eyes being harmed; blind men as unscrupulous predators; sheep as serene creatures, roosters and hens as evil ones; and the most famous Buñuelian motif of all, erotically charged images of feet and shoes. Though he declared he maintained an emotional distance from the majority of his "obsessions," "Objects of Desire" does contain the admission that a personal fascination did indeed lie behind the inclusion in his films of various sequences showing the bared...
...photo from this era shows Buñuel in full nun-drag - making it no surprise that early on in "Chien andalou" (after the infamous eyeball- slitting scene, featuring Buñuel himself) our hero is seen bicycling through the streets wearing nun-like apparel. Later on, as the hero attempts to sexually attack the heroine, he is required to pull ropes connected to a variety of weighty impediments - including two reclining Marist brothers (one of whom is purportedly Dali). "L'Age d'or" followed soon after, but Buñuel was not able to return to his trademark imagery...