Word: contempts
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...stomach the cop's complacent cynicism about the toadies who do the French bureaucracy's dirty work. In this, as in almost everything else, Michel is restrained. Matter-of-factly hoisting himself up from a cafe table in mid-meal and handing the commissioner some money, he conveys more contempt than he would have by slapping...
...speak German, he does so, and if Brando labels a particular question "stupid," the interviewer laughingly concedes that it is and moves on to something else. It seems an interviewer has one of two choices in dealing with Brando; either ask the typical questions and be met with icy contempt, or allow the talk to play itself out on a pleasant but superficial level. The interview format simply cannot contain the full sensuousness of Brando's character...
...Sotheby's, one of its former consultants, David Gould, wrote to Chairman Peter Wilson expressing doubts about it. But the scandal was finally exposed when Geraldine Norman, the London Times's auction-room correspondent, tracked Keating to his lonely cottage in Dedham. "I have so much contempt for the dealers who prostitute the art of genuine painters," Keating announced, "that I was willing to sell them any old rubbish...
...shot to Harvard. Offering the domestic version of the doomsday-for-democracy spiel he perfected as U.N. ambassador, Moynihan theorized that America's "educated class" must take on the "challenge of reformation and reconstitution" to head off a "calamitous" fate at the hands of a young elite full of contempt for the liberal tradition of the West. The crowd--dominated by Harvard alumni, hardly the victims of the "liberal" system Moynihan was eulogizing--ate it up, especially when a handful of protesters perched on the steps of Widener briefly chanted "Racist Moynihan," confirming everyone's suspicion that, yes, Western democracy...
...Strangelove. I've always suspected Stanley Kubrick of basically despising human beings. His sets tend to resemble the Mather House courtyard, done in that intimidating style intended to give people the feeling that they are insignificant. In Strangelove, though, his contempt for people isn't particularly noxious, because he's portraying a particularly contemptible group--the American military-political elite. George C. Scott satirizes the character of military men brilliantly--at heart, they are adolescents who never grew up, infatuated with the noise and destructive power of weaponry, and strangely naive...