Word: crueler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...need to pardon this aging genius his obscure symbology or warped sense of humor or ideological obsessions, because Tristana is a beautifully integrated masterpiece. An aging gentleman (Fernando Rey) exploits a young and nunnish dependent (Catherine Deneuve) until she snatches the dominating role away from him, becoming perhaps the crueler tyrant. The story threads lightly, revealing rather than obscuring the texture of snow-particles skitting across the granite of the church; the walled and narrow-streeted Spanish village; the suffering and scorn in Deneuve's bloodless face; the wrench of Catholicism. The surrealism here is not extraneous or forced...
...Americans can't take similar pride in the role their own government plays in Greece or Korea. In both countries, the United States is the principal supporter of the dictators. It sends them money and assistance which they use to make their control crueler and more complete. When the Greek government declared martial law on Sunday, the tanks it deployed against student demonstrators were American tanks, and the blood of those demonstrators killed fighting for democratic ideals reddens President Nixon's hands almost as deeply as the blood of Cambodian farmers killed by his bombers...
...death seems crueler than an early death, cutting off talent at its peak. Such was the tragedy last week of the Metropolitan Opera's new general manager, Göran Gentele, who was killed in an automobile accident while vacationing in Sardinia.* The car he was driving collided head-on with a truck, also killing two of Gentele's daughters and injuring his wife and a third daughter. "We're all in shock," said Met President George S. Moore. Abe Marcus, chairman of the Met's orchestra committee, spoke for the rank and file...
...course, times have changed, and since then Hollywood has grown up, depicting a crueler world of vice, not wickedness, and mediocrity, not evil. But when I delved back further, into the twenties and thirties, I found vice and evil too. Suddenly I discovered that adults had always been adults, and that the hidden meanings I now discovered in the forties concoctions had always been there. The world had been sophisticated before I grew up to appreciate...