Word: lifelong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thematic similarities are striking. Charles, the elderly owner of a consistently expanding watchmaking firm, finds himself suddenly filled with revulsion at his lifelong impulse to prosperity and bourgeois respectability. Much to the dismay of his still business-minded son, he disappears from home and takes up secluded residence with a bohemian artist, the artists wife and Charles's own daughter. Father and daughter take up the political education of their hosts, until Son finally catches up with Father, and Charles is taken off to a mental hospital...
Tanaka, a bluff-spoken millionaire real estate man and lifelong politician, brings to his Peking venture only three months' tenure as Japan's Premier and little experience in diplomacy (see box). Though he is not strong on foreign affairs, he is an acknowledged authority on what figures to be a principal target of the summit negotiation: Japanese domestic politics...
Instead of the growling, affectionate bantering that goes on between the Bunkers, Alf and his wife Else (Dandy Nichols) engage in a lifelong struggle to wound. One Christmas Eve, Else tells Alf that she is pregnant. They cannot recall when or how it could have happened. In the film's best scene, Alf gets drunk at his daughter's wedding, insults the guests and finally passes out. "He ruined my wedding," the bride weeps on her mother's shoulder. "Don't worry," Else soothes her. "He ruined mine...
...this is strictly according to the gospel of Robert Downey, set down in Greaser's Palace, his funniest, most accomplished and most audacious film yet. Downey's lifelong dedication to assaulting the boundaries of good taste still ends too often in dirty jokes that misfire and a kind of varsity show satire. But with its boundless energy and delirious invention, Greaser's Palace is easily the most adventurous American movie so far this year...
...time the test began, treatment for syphilis was uncertain at best, and involved a lifelong series of risky injections of such toxic substances as bismuth, arsenic and mercury. But in the years following World War II, the PHS's test became a matter of medical morality. Penicillin had been found to be almost totally effective against syphilis, and by war's end it had become generally available. But the PHS did not use the drug on those participating in the study unless the patients asked...