Word: ester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...descriptive approach to reality, attempting to cast social themes in individualized dimensions (Milos Forman, Jiri Menzel). But a few filmmakers have made a radical break with previous Czech film, abandoning descriptive conventions for vivid stylization and a strong strain of philosophical abstraction. Chief among these are the art designer Ester Krumbachova and directors Jan Nemec and Ver Chytilova; Nemec's Report in the Party and the Guests and Chytilova's Daisies are its best representatives...
...Germans were also slow in identifying the offending poison. Though nearly 50 German laboratories were reportedly making tests, it was the Dutch who first isolated the killer. The substance, they said, was a bug-paralyzing insecticide called endosulvan and marketed as Thiodan. A sulfurous acid ester, endosulvan is described by its manufacturers, the Hochst chemical works just west of Frankfurt, as harmless to warm-blooded animals, including humans, even though one microgram (less than one three-millionth of an ounce) in a quart of water is enough to kill coldblooded fish...
...Cristina Diligenti was in Rome, where she works as a secretary. Carlos and Franco, students in British Columbia, put in a full day's work (though their father is a millionaire industrialist) at their summer jobs as $3.19-an-hour Vancouver longshoremen. Back home in Buenos Aires, Marfa Ester and Maria Fernanda are both married, and have three children, two girls and a boy, between them. But all five sent happy birthday besos and abrazos to one another and their proud parents by telephone...
...weather too is unsettling. Heat and humidity stifle most activity save bathing and eroticism. It soon became clear that Ester's masturbation (long enough in the American version) is a poor substitute for the Lesbian feelings she has for Anna. Anna is not free from reciprocal impulses, but her hate finally triumphs over love in a heterosexual affair with a strange waiter. She taunts her sister with stories about her lover and, in the film's climax, flings open the door behind which she knows Ester is hiding. Cruelly, Anna continues her bed play to torture her watching sister...
...corridors. He has lots of fun with the midgets (Refugees From Society) but fails to communicate with the elderly bellhop (The Older Generation). Young Johan doesn't miss a thing, though, watching mommie make love to the stranger. His eyes opening, his ego transferring, he discovers an affection for Ester, but abruptly departs the next day with his mother, leaving auntie dying in a strange land...