Word: kaputt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...barrels. He will have a string leading to the triggers on the two barrels. One will be loaded with a dud containing a check for $1,000,000-the other with a live 37mm. shell guaranteed to tear his head off. If he pulls the wrong string-kaputt...
This camera feat is only one of many extraordinary things about an extraordinary movie. Strange Deception is the first film effort of a highly controversial literary figure: 54-year-old Italian Journalist Curzio (Kaputt, The Skin) Malaparte, notorious in recent times for his shifting and often unsavory political alliances with both Fascist and Communist causes. In Strange Deception, Malaparte, who now claims to have renounced all forms of politics, has made a completely unpolitical movie which he describes as "a Christian film." It is neither pro-nor antiFascist, neither pro-nor antiCommunist; instead, with an almost religious fervor, it voices...
...next year Malaparte fortified his status as an anti-Fascist with the publication of Kaputt (TIME, Nov. 11, 1946), a gruesome collection of anecdotes about Nazi-Fascist cruelty. Kaputt was a sensational bestseller on the Continent, and made Malaparte one of Europe's leading apostles of nausea-a sort of Jean Paul Spillane...
...second autobiographical account, The Skin, Malaparte has done for his new masters what he did for his old in Kaputt. The treatment is just as popular, too. The Skin has already sold 100,000 copies in Italy, 200,000 in France, 250,000 in Germany, and is a bestseller in Argentina, Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands, Norway and Spain...
...very hard journey. Her party was forced to walk for the first two days, and many of the women broke down and were left by the wayside, and Elli does not know their fate . . . The officer in charge said: "If you cannot get along, stay here and go 'kaputt...