Word: communale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drawing-room philosopher's Ages of Man: Old Sam (Ustinov) at 80 is confronted with himself at 60, 40, 20, and even as a baby. The four grown Sams share the stage together, and with all the amusing ironies of hindsight and foreknowledge relive key episodes in their communal life. Sam at 20 (John Horton) is an ardent lyric poet and marathon runner, at 40 (Donald Davis) a disgruntled fictional crafts man of obscure worst-sellers, at 60 (Dennis King) a rich, popular hack novelist and flagging voluptuary. Old Sam is still trying to learn the lesson...
...children are not invited). The wives cook in community kitchens or on hot plates in their rooms, divide their time between shopping in the university gastronom and swapping language lessons with Russians. Bachelors live with Russians, Africans or students from Soviet satellites. All clean their own rooms and perform communal chores, such as K.P. and phone duty, assigned by the floor starosta, an elected "elder," or monitor, common to Russian group living...
...Barbara Hutton's six marriages. Lance's bride even rode a motorcycle to get the feel of a wheel, but when it hit 25 m.p.h., Jill came tumbling after. Finally their two-year marriage went all aflivver and Jill sued for separate maintenance, demanding all of their communal property. Definitely not for her: the 1961 Porsche, Mercedes 3005L, 1936 Rolls-Royce, slinky Scarab racer and Cadillac hearse (for toting around skis and surfboards) that Lance quarters in the garage back of their $250,000 Beverly Hills, Calif, honeymoon cottage...
...camp is squalid-its only purity the snow, its only building a brothel. The beau is not squalid, but his three brothers are, and they clearly expect to share communal marital privileges. When the terrified bride decamps on her wedding night and rejoins the gold-guarding trio, the serious shooting begins. The good-guy bad-guy struggle is dramatically tangled and intensified by the fact that Scott and Starr have intended all along to either sweet-talk or pistol-silence McCrea out of the gold...
...tribe practices the cult of the severed head. Young boys entering warrior-hood spend an initiation night in the men's communal hut cradling a freshly cut enemy head between their knees-a ceremony that requires a new crop of heads each time. The headhunters, photographed in the same general territory where 23-year-old Michael Rockefeller was lost last year, wear skulls dangling from their necks as magic charms against evil, and they tuck skulls under their heads as pillows at night. Despite the archly ominous narration of the sound track, the headhunters prove curiously unsavage. Poling their...