Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pussycat, unlike its predecessors, contains symbols and images which are woven throughout the film. Many sequences are meant as parodies of classic scenes from other movies. The dream sequence from "8 1/2" where the hero is confronted by all his former women finds very fitting application here. The poolroom fight from Irma La Douce is transferred to a library where it unfortunately becomes less effective. Best of all, there is a classic Keystone Cops parody using go-carts instead of jalopies. These parodies permit the script to jump out of reality without invoking our disbelief...
...wooden codfish above his coppersmith shop. In early Boston, children crowded around on Saturdays in hopes that the gilded Indian gleaming on the Province House cupola would, as superstition had it, shoot his arrow at high noon. In Pennsylvania, a weather vane in the shape of an Indian was meant as an offer of friendship-and hence protection from rampaging redskins. Soon every back-porch whittler and crackerjack craftsman was getting into the act. Weather vanes popped up in the shapes of Uncle Sam, butterflies, locomotives, Gabriel tooting on a trumpet, a haggard country doctor astraddle a haggard horse, even...
...early church saw these attitudes toward sex as unnatural. In defining what they meant by natural, theologians turned to an idea of the Stoics-that the nature of something was defined by its purpose. Just as the eye was for seeing, the generative organs were for generating. And only for generating. Thus, St. Justin Martyr in the 2nd century wrote: "We Christians marry only to produce children." Even stronger in tone was St. Augustine. Apart from childbearing, he gloomily concluded, "the marriage chamber is a brothel . . . husbands are shameful lovers, wives are harlots...
...twelve, find summer jobs at 15, and own their own cars at 16. On the other hand, in most states they are not allowed to drink until 21, and theoretically not expected to have sexual intercourse until they are married. Furthermore, the push toward college and graduate school has meant that many young men and women are still financially tied down to their parents until their late...
...eight, even to twelve cylinders, and speeds soared. In 1924, California's Peter DePaolo "cracked a ton"-averaging 101.13 m.p.h. at the Indianapolis 500-and Europe's dark genius, Ettore Bugatti, explained why he equipped his fantastically quick and costly cars with fantastically worthless brakes: "Automobiles are meant to go, not to stop...