Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dog Races, Wonderland, Revere (nightly...
...Cosmopolfilm; Columbia) is perhaps the best picture produced in Central Europe since the war. Made in Austria, it was flung before the German people at the time their sovereignty was restored, as a brutal reminder of the price they paid for political folly, as a hair of the mad dog that bit them. Based on a book by Michael A. Musmanno, a U.S. judge at the Nürnberg trials, the film tells the story of the last ten days in Hitler's headquarters in Berlin, at the end of World War II. Facts are respected wherever facts...
...officers to try an overnight coup. Dirk is jailed briefly and ordered to leave the country. When Aziza and clan hear of his disgrace, he gets an even quicker brushoff. As Aziza screams her parting words, they seem almost like an Egyptian anathema on all foreigners: "Son of a dog! I'll find an Egyptian ten times better than...
...increased, the myth about his arrogance has also grown. This myth originates not so much from any personal conceit, but from his intense identification with liberalism. In informal discussions of current issues like segregation, he becomes caustic and impatient in defense of militant liberalism. "Why should the under-dog be patient while he gets kicked in the teeth?" he demands. "We don't need caution so much as sound reasoning and the courage to apply it." This impatience with conservatism appears brash to critics who hear him debate. Similarly, the moral tone of some of Schlesinger's magazine articles...
Steiner's platoon is a batch of human putty. Among them are: trusty, pipe-smoking Schnurrbart, a born second-in-command; Dietz, a mamma's boy with the puppy-dog look; Dorn, an overage misclassified philosophy professor; Kern, a blowhard rookie; and Zoll, a pornography-minded tub of lard. "Anyone who gives out is going to be left behind," Steiner warns them. When their rations give out, Steiner tells them to eat tree bark, but he also shares the last of his own rations. When Dietz is critically wounded in a night skirmish, it is Steiner who holds...