Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem - the results of incestuous love repressed in their childhood, naturally. Hero Wylie understands their problems, but when they start an affair, he burns his notes and walks out. The reader may have beaten him to the exit. Prophet Wylie's inexhaustible choler dismisses with equal contempt sexual inhibition, racism, beehive hairdos, Middle Western accents and piped music. Perhaps it is time that a kindly cop asked him, gently, to move along...
...bills. Furthermore, Shelton's tax returns showed only about $18,000 of the $32,000 received in 1964 Klan taxes as Klan corporate income. Cried Ohio Republican John Ashbrook: "It's just a question of who gets him first-the Internal Revenue Service, or Congress on a contempt charge...
...dirty tricks, La Guerra de Guerrillas. He was Cuba's first economic czar, running the national bank, then the Ministry of Industries, all the while plotting to extend Castro's revolution throughout Latin America with "wars of national liberation." Always he spouted hatred for the U.S., contempt for the "soft" Moscow line, and admiration for the warlike cries coming from the Chinese Communists...
Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless, Contempt), presently riding the crest of the New Wave, began the festival with his most recent film, Alphaville. His hero, Lemmy Caution, is a cross between Dick Tracy and Flash Gordon, spiced with a touch of Humphrey Bogart. (At one point we catch Caution reading The Big Sleep.) Godard lets his imagination run wild as his comic-strip hero battles the computer-king of a super-mechanized science fiction city. Neon signs flash mathematical formulas across the screen, and the computer growls instructions from what looks like a CBS recording studio...
...Furry and Kamin are arraigned in Boston in January on contempt charges. Kamin is acquitted and the contempt citation against Furry is dismissed on the Kamin precedent...