Word: goatish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ZORBA THE GREEK. The hell, the horror and the sheer animal delight of Nikos Kazantzakis' novel are served up larger than life by Director Michael Cacoyannis, with Anthony Quinn magnificently cast as the goatish old Greek who butts his way through a series of disasters...
ZORBA THE GREEK. The hell, the horror and the sheer animal delight of Nikos Kazantzakis' novel are served up larger than life by Director Michael Cacoyannis, with Anthony Quinn magnificently cast as the goatish old Greek who butts his way through a series of disasters...
ZORBA THE GREEK. Like the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, this cinemadaptation by Michael Cacoyannis raises a roaring amen to life as it is and a lusty cheer for the man who dares to live it to hellangone. The man is portrayed by Anthony Quinn with noble savagery and goatish gusto...
Gabrielle is the ancient Chimera brought to life-the head of a lioness, clawlike hands, a goatish nature. When Jacquemar first glimpses this temptress, "her beauty aroused in him an irresistible, nameless thirst which, if it was sexual, seemed to endow sexuality with a new role in the world." Coolly, she insists on her innocence in l'affaire Gouffe and puts to rout all of Policeman Goron's neatly assembled evidence. Protectors rise on every side: prominent lawyers, wealthy men, the demonstrating street mobs of Paris and Marseille. Her luckless partner goes off to the guillotine, but triumphant...
...carats in all, and to duplicate it today would cost $3,855,500-including, Historian Mossiker notes helpfully, the 10% federal excise tax. This grotesque ornament was invented by the crown jewelers to tempt Madame du Barry, who would probably have bought it if her protector, the goatish Louis XV, had not died of smallpox before the diamonds could be assembled. Antoinette, the new Queen, then seemed the ideal purchaser: her husband had the money, and she, possessing a 43½-inch bust, could set off 647 diamonds properly. But the Queen, exercising restraint for perhaps the only time...