Word: excrementalism
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...historical themes, 1900 's strongest motifs are visual. Bertolucci organizes the film around the seasons of the year and provides a voluptuous emotional texture wrought from pastoral sun light, blood, mist and excrement. Though much of 1900 has the majesty of Renaissance art, many of its images are erotic or terrifying. In one typically disturbing scene, the director reveals his views on sexual exploitation by sending his two leads to bed with a lovely village laundress who proves to be epileptic. Later, when the Blackshirts come to power, the movie's principal villains (Donald Sutherland and Laura Betti...
...recent years, dissidents have reached the West with tales of political victims held incommunicado in psychiatric hospitals, sometimes drugged into a docile stupor, beaten or tied to their beds to wallow in their own excrement. These practices have outraged world opinion, but the World Psychiatric Association timidly avoided the subject at its last meeting...
...plunged into a deep mental depression, and at one point another simply fainted, apparently from tension. The hijackers maintained strict hygiene inside the train. Every morning blankets were hung out of the windows and beaten to remove the dust. In the afternoon, hostages were assigned to remove excrement from under the train's toilet pipe and bury it in the gravel of the railway bed. Brooms and cleaning materials were brought in, along with games and a daily food delivery from a caterer, paid for by the government. Unable to take any physical exercise, many of the hostages complained...
...quotations borrowed from Lewis Carroll, is, in some respects, a continuation of what was so brilliantly begun a couple of years ago in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Once again the setting is the Middle Ages. Once again the medieval world is seen as all ignorance, blood and excrement. Once again chivalry and romance are viewed as aristocratic conceits designed to make an ugly epoch palatable to the more delicate sensibilities of the time?and to latter-day observers of history...
...outrageous as last week's verdict. Hustler has printed photos of a brunette being ravished by a snake, a pictorial feature of a nude woman 8½ months pregnant, and gruesome illustrations of various genital and gynecological oddities. The cartoons seek sick snickers in such topics as castration, excrement, bestiality and, in one memorably tasteless panel, Betty Ford's breast cancer. Every issue features photographs sent in by readers, displaying the private parts of their wives and girl friends. "We are genuine entertainment with no pretensions," says Flynt. "We have proved that barnyard humor has a market appeal...