Word: fascistically
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...social changes that are moving Japan away from traditional manners and mores. In traditional fashion, he likes to boast of his conquest of more than 500 women, ranging from "a distant relative of Emperor Taisho to almost all the top geisha." His unbridled admiration for Benito Mussolini -"the perfect fascist and dictator" -lingers to this day. Indeed, Sasakawa sometimes boasts that he is the "world's wealthiest fascist...
Giancarlo Giannini plays an ignorant, country peasant (Tunin) so fearful of death he scarcely utters a complete sentence or moves a facial muscle throughout the movie. Tunin is bent on assassinating Mussolini to avenge the death of a friend by Fascist henchmen. He sells his cow and goes off to learn from the anarchist Brighenti gang how to shoot a pistol. Waiting for the dictator's appearance at a public rally, he hides out in one of Rome's highclass bordellos, only to be thwarted when two whores fall in love with him and fail to wake...
...FILM is further disjointed by a huge block of time spent on a caricature of a superpig Fascist, Spatoletti, who patronizes Salome, calling her his "golden ass." Images pile on top of images--Spatoletti's round head sheathed in a leather motorcycle cap; his high black boots and fisheye goggles; a demonic grimace; an imperial pose in the arms of an ice-blue marble statue eerily lit at night; an encounter with a peasant who lost two fingers to Spatoletti's knife and now jokes nervously, "I make the sign of the cuckhold when I salute Il Duce." Wertmuller...
...events in modern times have inspired men to as great heroics as did the Spanish Civil War, fought in 1936-9 between those loyal to the five-year old democratic government and the fascist forces of General Franco determined to turn Spain into a totalitarian state. Barely had the Popular Front government been elected, bringing to power a coalition of Communists, Socialists, and other elements of the Left, than Franco started an army revolt originating in northern Africa and quickly extended throughout Spain. While Franco's Nationalist troops were substantially reinforced by elite troops sent from Hitler's Germany...
...people of the United States expect that American foreign policy will reflect their universal concern for human rights and democracy. Yet, the U.S. government continues to aid the suppression of human rights in Greece and other corrupt and fascist governments in the name of freedom...