Word: dies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Official: "There's one consolation. The condemned man gets the sacraments. Some of them die holier deaths than if they'd finished their natural span...
Guard: "Commit murder and die happy, is that what you mean, sir? But we can't advertise that, now can we. They'd all be doin' it. They take religion seriously in this country, y'know...
...crisis of launching. For a few violent minutes, the spacecraft, folded into the nose of its boost vehicle, must withstand an enormous increase of gravity due to acceleration. It is shaken by fierce vibration as heat sears through the shroud that protects it from racing air. Many spacecraft have died during launch, just as human babies sometimes die during delivery...
...Quare Fellow, based on the play by Ireland's Brendan Behan, is a funny tragedy, a happy-go-lucky horror show, a gay little wake for the dead who have died in the name of justice-the kind of justice that demands a life for a life. Like the play, the picture ignores the rational arguments against capital punishment. It simply takes its audience inside an Irish prison and bolts the gate; and then with a world of Irish charm and humor shows everybody round the dear old place, shows everybody how it feels to live in a cell...
...Elusive Corporal. "The young man who has not wept is a savage," said George Santayana, "and the old man who will not laugh is a fool." In Grand Illusion, made in 1937, when he was 43, Jean Renoir wept for the worlds that die in wars. In Corporal, made last year, when he was 67, Renoir laughs for the worlds that are born in debacle. And while he's about it he laughs at the ridiculous ideas people have about freedom. Renoir's laughter is contagious. Nobody will consider his new war film as fine...