Word: maniac
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...Lion Trainer Clyde Beatty of the 3-D film Man-Killer. His main screen assets: a squint, a crew cut, 5 ft. 8 in. of muscles. Spillane, in the manner of his hero, gore-spilling Private Eye Mike Hammer, will play a detective in hot pursuit of a homicidal maniac...
...contrast to this bureaucratic farce stands the criminal vitality of Moosbrugger, a murderer and sex maniac. From his many bouts with the law, Moosbrugger has picked up a weird blend of legal and psychiatric jargon, by which he expresses the chaotic resentments which seethe within him-and which, hints Novelist Musil, also seethe within millions of his fellow men. In his deluded fashion, Moosbrugger comes to think that "his whole life had been a battle for his rights." And Ulrich, though his exact opposite, feels a certain sympathy, even a sneaking identification, with Moosbrugger. "If mankind could dream collectively...
...movie does succeed, however, in fulfilling the other essential, good acting. Rashomon demands versatility. The woman must be a tearful maniac in one scene, a persecuted saint in another. The husband moves from cowardice to stoicism, but it is the bandit who really presents a gem of an acting performance. In his own version, especially, he is a cunning beast; oozing with braggadocio. Only half-clothed, his grimy torso shimmers with sweat as he embraces the woman with iron arms and presses his face to her fainting body. In all of his scenes, the bandit in his earthy way makes...
...Deluge!! "Bette Williams in her greatest-ever role as Noah's wife. Shut up in a floating menagerie with a wild-eyed, 600-year-old prophet! Is he saint or maniac? You'll never forget Shem, battling against the fire in the blazing hold; or Ham rescuing Japheth from the maddened gorilla they dare not kill! . . . Marvel at Lassie as she rounds up the escaped leopards fighting on the roof...
...Radio called on Red China for more conscripts, beat the drums for a bigger effort in Korea. The U.N. Commission in Korea reported: no Red Chinese volunteers, only Red Chinese regulars in Korea. But Russia's Vishinsky brushed Peking and the U.N. witness aside, vilified MacArthur as a "maniac, the principal culprit, the evil genius," railed against the six-power resolution. With satanic effrontery, he proposed withdrawal of all "foreign forces" from Korea. Chinese Red "volunteers," he explained, could not be counted as "foreign forces...