Word: damn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were never Churchill's happiest. He went back to the Tory Party. ''Anybody can rat," he explained with a grin, "but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat." In 1924 he became Chancellor of the Exchequer, a post for whose decimal definitives ("those damn little dots") he was not well suited. His first budget was the first link in the deflationary chain that led to a general strike, a nationwide depression, and the fall of the second Baldwin government...
...plot, on the whole, is hopelessly confused. With several critical but racy factors in the novel (like pornography, homosexuality, and nymphomania) censored out of the screenplay, much of the motivation in the movie becomes grossly unclear, and Marlowe's deductive sequence is damn near impossible to follow. But all that doesn't really matter, since witty dialogue and unflinching violence would be the film's outstanding features even if the plot made sense...
...probably haven't much time to live. You are doing a fellow human being an injustice in your position toward me. You don't want to carry that on your soul when it comes your time to go." McKellar shouted. "God damn, God damn, I have had enough of this!" Then he stomped...
...need be, to organize a union. He is fired. His father-in-law eventually wangles him a job in a filling station, but a few days later the white vigilantes warn his employer that the station will be wrecked if "that nigger ain't gone-and damn soon." In fury and frustration, the hero roughs up his wife and cuts out for Birmingham. There he finds his father, a malevolent old derelict, and in him sees what he himself will some day surely be-unless he stands up and fights for his right to work and raise a family...
...Negro. It feels, if the hero's experience is the general one, as if the 14th Amendment had not been psychologically ratified. "The white men!" the hero rages in despair. "They get inside you and you can't stop them! They reach right into you with their damn white hands and turn...