Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Films, Triumph of the Will, The Camps of the Dead. (Soc. Sci. 2 films of Nazi Germany). New Lecture Hall. Free...
...idea of a fourteen year-old lying dead-drunk on a sidewalk is certainly disturbing. But the ABC has taken a somewhat ineffective means of preventing such occurrences, leaving the package stores comparatively untouched, while purging inoffensive bars. If the twenty-one year age limit were enforced along more sensible lines, public cooperation might increase accordingly...
...sufficient to stimulate the nerves and quicken the blood for an hour, without leaving any after-taste or memory. Thus the [young] girls can let themselves be caressed by the boys, and the old ladies can either dance frantically or stand there very dignified, completely stiff because they are dead-drunk. No punishment follows this sort of excitement, which is less dangerous for body, soul and social order than sensuality, intellectual passions, coquetterie, or jealousy...
...season is unfortunate. Unless Philip Barrie's wisps of philosophy are staged either with a sense of humor or with a sense of dedicated oddness, they can drag tediously. Since the director and cast seem dreadfully sober as they face the first hour or so, the current production remains dead until the bright second half of its long only...
...mechanical ingenuity to Gestapo methods of torture (a small machine for crushing testicles), and a pseudo-scientific slant to many of their regular duties (victims with perfect teeth were withheld from the incinerators in order to provide the Nazis with perfect skulls for paperweights; the heads of dead Jewish Communist commissars were pickled for an anthropological collection of "subhumans"). Whereas the Russians' prime concern seemed to be confessions of self-guilt, the Germans tortured mainly to extract admissions of others' guilt. When justice finally caught up with an MVD man he usually went stoically to his death...