Word: mercilessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Malle's merciless closeups, more eloquently than the script, make the picture's point: it's hard for a mere woman to be a movie goddess. Affair's scenario is creepily Bardographical. It tells the story of a simple girl who doesn't enjoy being a movie idol. She signs autographs as if on her own death warrant, views mobs of admirers from the back seat of her white Citroën like some tumbrel-borne Marie Antoinette, hysterically adopts a lover-of-the-week policy. Finally, after fainting in the midst of a rabble...
Within hours after her death, Marilyn Monroe faced her Last Judgment at the hands of TIME magazine. In quick, merciless thrusts your writer depicted early guilt, perverted dreams, and a "kittenish romance." It advanced a "death long in coming," "self-doubt," and just plain "body...
...talent was somehow overshadowed by his contemporaries. H. G. Wells ruefully confessed to Arnold Bennett that Swinnerton "achieves a perfection that you and I never get within streets of." In Death of a Highbrow, the perfection is still evident in the cool, muscular style, and in his merciless view of man's behavior relieved by what Bennett called Swinnerton's "mysterious touch of fundamental benevolence...
...Kennedy's labor friends might cause him more trouble than the enemies he recently earned among businessmen. Since the steel crisis, most of the U.S. has been waiting to see if he would meet wage-increase demands by Big Labor with the same merciless tactics. The President had journeyed to Atlantic City not to praise labor (though that was part of the ritual) but to admonish it in firm fashion to stay in line...
ANNA V. MCCAFFREY Cambridge, Mass. Sore Eros Sir: Your merciless lambasting of Eros [March 23] proves what enlightened people already know about your magazine: it is a dazzling editorial product with a predictably narrow viewpoint, and at the core, it is rotten...