Word: daggering
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Politicians of the Papandreou stripe accuse Frederika of pushing her son to mix actively in Greek politics instead of counseling him to stay above the battle. Whenever the King's shiny Rolls-Royce is seen outside his mother's villa, the press almost invariably reports it as cloak-and-dagger news. Last week, just before the coup, King Constantine and his wife celebrated Frederika's 50th birthday at a private lunch at the villa, where she lives with Princess Irene, 24. Her other daughter, Sophia, is married to Juan Carlos, son of the pretender to the Spanish throne, Don Juan...
...Cloak, Another Man's Dagger...
...good-guy roommate (Jerry Heist). The movie begins with Lerner's discovery of a dinner-jacketed corpse in what I take to be the foyer of A Entry. The dead man, actually a boy of approximately Lerner's age, is wearing a handsome scarab ring and clutching a curved dagger of ominously Eastern design. These melodramatic artifacts it transpires, are linked with the title character, (Ellen Anschuetz), a chic but enigmatic actress who is mistress of an elegant home on Francis Ave. She gets her property back with the help of her hirelings, a butler (Peter Jaszi) and a murderous...
...from his obvious rage at ambiguity. If there's a door, he'll open it; it there's a curtain, he'll pull it aside. We're tipped off at the beginning of the picture when Lerner's and the camera's preoccupation is with the ring and the dagger, rather than with the body, which is scarcely examined and then only for a second's slap across the cheeks to be sure it's really dead. In the film's most immediately powerful sequence, he spells out his self-disgust by carving "FOOL" in his forearm with a razorblade...
...most thought of by American students because it is the key to enjoyment. As a means of making money, "knocking other people down to step into their shoes" has been fostered since their childhood as a kind of philosophy of life. To seek personal advancement, they may, with a dagger, pierce the back of the person who "obstructs" them, be that person one of their best friends! In Chicago there was the conspiracy of two university students to kill a baby. Their motive was very simple: to do a shocking thing like that would make them famous...