Word: madding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet nuclear competition or possible cooperation. In the past, the "action-reaction phenomenon" has been the controlling factor. Each side, responding to traditional military prudence, has sought to counter real or prospective advances by the other. The result has been an enormous overkill capacity beyond "mutual assured destruction" (MAD...
...actually have preferred to die rather than subject his family to what he deemed the public shame of an airing of his sexual fantasies-scrawled comments about girls he scarcely knew. This, and a revelation of his low IQ violated his sense of ruj#363;liyah. "We may be mad as hell at each other," Sirhan's younger brother Munir explained, "but we never show it to outsiders...
...from her widowed pagan father when he ordered her to marry him. He pursued her across the sea to Geel, where, insane with incestuous lust, he beheaded her. He instantly recovered his sanity, thereby es tablishing Dympna's reputation as a virgin martyr with powers to cure the mad. The date of her canonization is uncertain, but in the 13th century a chapel in Geel was named for her. Mentally afflicted pilgrims to the chapel soon overflowed the small lodge built to house them, and the Geeloise peasants, cannily combining religious devotion with thrift, began to take the pilgrims...
...plot is the sort of thing that gives science fiction a bad name. A writer (Michel Piccoli) and his mute wife (Catherine Deneuve) live in an abandoned fort on the coast of Brittany. She is pregnant; he is trying to write. Gradually, he conceives a weird fantasy about a mad engineer who plants control devices on the populace to destroy their free will. Reality begins to blur as the mad engineer invites the writer to sit down at an enormous electronic chessboard on which the townspeople are the pieces and the prize is the wife's fate. Writer...
...altiés and Paris Match, Madame Demy has an unerring instinct for the stylishly avantgarde. She photographed Les Créatures as if it were a Vogue layout, and edited it elliptically. She even tinted the fantasy scenes to avoid confusion: red for those influenced by the mad engineer at his game board, a benign pink for the writer-hero. The trouble is that she seems to take the hero's fantasy as seriously as he does. As in her other films (Cleo from 5 to 7, Le Bonheur), she mistakes pulp for pith and winds up only...