Word: freaked
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...there you have the story. On it hang thousands of cameos: of ugly, deformed, voluptuous. debauching Romans. Fellini's camera moves past them almost mechanically, allotting a measured vignette to each freak and then moving on. The story almost rumbles as it moves unaffected through so many lives...
...over. Alan does not know that his old school chum is a homosexual, and Michael does not particularly want Alan to be confronted with this piece of news now. (As he says, "Alan looks down on people in the theatre -so what you think he'll feel about this freak show I've got booked for dinner...
...disguised puma that eats its competition at a silk-stocking New York dog show and two gnarled heavyweight contenders who prance to the center of the ring, embrace, and writhe down to the canvas moaning passionately. And the cruise aboard the Magic Christian pleasure liner inexplicably disintegrates into a freak orgy that gives werewolves, midgets, body-cultists, and gorillas the opportunity to mug out a few giggles from the bored audience...
...some bad news." he said. When the crowd groaned, he quickly added, "Oh, don't worry. He's gonna be here. But he's gonna be here tomorrow night. Right now he's passed out in Brookline. See, what he is is a sixty-year-old speed freak, and he's been traveling fast, and, you know, that stuff catches up with you after a while...
...perfect-there is no other word for it. Her acceptance of the lechery and cruelty around her as the only reality is entirely convincing. Whether she is taunting another contestant or ridiculing kindnesses of her partner or even lighting a cigarette (with all the calm of a speed freak), Fonda hits us hard with the indisputable rightness of her behavior. It is one of the best existential anti-hero roles of all time, and she never falters in her handling...