Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Polanski has always fancied himself something of an absurdist, although his best films-such as Knife in the Water, Repulsion and Cul de Sac-have been more notable for good, slightly kinky melodrama. What? has more of the trappings of absurdist comedy. The girl, although apparently free to leave, remains a prisoner; nothing is explained, no one acts out of any clear motivation...
...clothing firm, and is even unloading the 347-unit S.H. Kress variety store chain. He has already shut down three textile plants in Tennessee and North Carolina. Together, these operations accounted for $18 million of the fiscal-1973 red ink. From now on, says Frank the Knife, he intends to "concentrate on improving the company's profits and worry less about sales...
...Although the hamburger originated in medieval Europe, as raw beef shredded by a dull knife. Merchants from the Baltic carried the dish to Hamburg, where it is still popular both raw and cooked. German immigrants brought it, fried and bunned, to South St. Louis, and introduced it to the rest of the U.S. at the St. Louis World's Fair...
...become almost purely theaters, and the shows are tame; one has closed down to become a children's theater. One laughs at jokes about the Nazis; nowhere is there anything resembling Gunter Grass' famous description in The Tin Drum of the "Onion Cellar," where patrons are served with onions, knife, and cutting board, and aroused by weepy music...
...organized seal slaughter, intolerable boredom in a job at an automated fish-processing plant, and true lunacy in the fact that white oil explorers live by their clocks. The whites "are so crazy," he concludes that "they believe they alone make sense." In a glorious scene, he fashions a knife out of his own freezing excrement. When it is rock hard, he kills two huskies with it and builds a sled of pelts and bones. Then he triumphantly carries his family off to a free life in a place remote from whites. Readers will rejoice. ·Philip Herrera