Word: greedfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with which the movie begins to grow less funny. The climax comes with a roundup of Jews for the concentration camps. Should Tono risk hiding his friend or force her to join the frightened crowd in the square? The end is a moving, ironic illumination of the small-scale greed and failure of nerve that enabled the Nazis to triumph over so many free...
...convinced the other man that she loved him, provoked him into a ruinous financial scheme, deserted him. Novelist Vailland. a sometime Communist who died in May, was also a successful journalist and film scenarist (Les Liaisons Dangereuses). His prizewin-nine novel, The Law, was a compelling study of greed, lust and power politics in a small Italian town. In his present book he aims to tell the ironic, chilling story of a modern Diana who hunts a different species of bulls and bears. Author Vailland seems to think the lady is hot stuff, but most readers will find her just...
...their families in the Saxon market town of Cloppenberg stood stolidly as the Chancellor launched into his basic campaign theme for 1965: the need to develop in West Germany a formierte Gesellschaft, meaning a well-ordered society, with equal restraint on government regimentation and private "stomach filling and greed." The Saxon farmers interrupted Erhard neither for catcalls nor clapping, but they chuckled each time he lit another Black Wisdom cigar, and at the end presented him with a piglet as a good-luck token. Such appreciative receptions greeted der Dicke wherever he went. In three days of whistle-stopping...
...campaign, Stevenson insisted only upon trying to talk "sense to the American people" and avoiding what he called the "nauseous nonsense, the pie-in-the-sky appeals to cupidity and greed, the cynical trifling with passion and prejudice and fear, the slander, the fraudulent promises, and the all-things-to-all-men demagoguery." He didn't have much hope that he would win over Dwight Eisenhower. "You know," he said to a friend, "you really can't beat a household commodity-the catchup bottle on the kitchen table...
High Infidelity draws and quarters the subject of extramarital dalliance, figuratively shaking the bedclothes to uncover four zesty episodes of an Italian comedy distinguished now for lively direction, now for superior performances. Its format is a series of irregular triangles edged with homosexuality, fetishism, jealousy and greed...