Word: funning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made up of about three different races. First, there are a number of runners who are going to try to win. Then, there is a much larger group of more realistic people attempting to finish in respectible time. Finally, there are the clowns who are out for the fun of it, perhaps hoping to finish. But without the clowns, the Marathon would lose a lot of its color...
...pretend or believe that I can solve all the problems of New York City." But he made it clear that he thought he could do a better job than Lindsay, whom he accused of multiplying the city's problems. Wagner's style is more Miltown than Fun City, and there were politicians who were betting that quiet is just what many of the city's white middle- and working-class voters will want after four turbulent years under Lindsay...
...Balance. The Communists, after telephoning Moscow, are invited to a Cabinet meeting. Says the Premier: "The people have spoken and democratically elected your party . . ."He prepares to hand over power when Luigi Longo suddenly shouts: "Don't try to make fun of us! We know quite well this is all a dirty capitalistic trick. That computer of yours is the trick. You rigged the wiring...
...downright repugnant. The mistress (Elisabeth Wiener) of a with-it artist (Bernard Fresson) falls for the owner of her lover's gallery. The owner (Laurent Terzieff) looks like the sort of tubercular pervert who might peddle pornographic pictures to schoolchildren, but he gets his kicks from having fun with adults. He ties his girls in chains, photographs them in submissive attitudes, fondles and then bullies them into abject sexual surrender. The whole thing is pretty disgusting, what with the heroine being degraded, her lover becoming murderously outraged, and the dirty young man sadomasochistically savoring their traumas...
...glad it's all over," she said. "I really got to hate the place. I just couldn't sleep there. It was so awful. You should have been there at the beginning." She smiled a bit. Her voice, a little shaky as always, steadied somewhat: "It was fun then. Everyone was laughing." And now, a little softer, a little sad: "But it got grimmer and grimmer as we went on." Her face went blank: "I'm happy it's over...