Word: morbidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clumsily worked out. Aside from some radiant color photography by Raoul Coutard (Jules and Jim, Breathless), Clift is the only interesting thing in this sluggish and somewhat muddled movie. But the interest in Clift, who died of a heart attack soon after this picture was completed, will be mostly morbid. Suffice it to say that his acting, though competent, is less striking than his appearance. He looks like a man who knows he is in bad health-and in a bad picture. It provides an undistinguished conclusion to a distinguished career...
...housewife and mother of three, Mrs. Charles Black, 38, was considerably shocked when she had a look at Swedish Director Mai Zetterling's Night Games, a morbid tale featuring incest, masturbation, sodomy and more. "Pornography for profit," said Mrs. Black, who used to know something about movies-and profit-when she was Shirley Temple. And so, when her fellow members of the board of directors of the San Francisco Film Festival insisted that Night Games remain on the schedule for showing later this month, Shirley resigned from the board and the festival. "I'm not a censor...
...Conduct), a favorite of Tunisia's go-go set; on opening night several ministers of state showed up, including Habib Bourguiba Jr., Tunisia's Foreign Minister. Now, according to Bourguiba Sr., it is only a bohemian den of iniquity where youngsters "practice a shameful exhibitionism in morbid and degrading dances." With that, Bourguiba ordered the Zéro closed...
...alert to family and friends?a habitually shy and quiet person who suddenly becomes aggressive and talkative, or the reverse. Other danger signs: depression and seclusion, hypersensitivity to little slights and insults, a change in normal patterns of eating or sleeping, uncontrolled outbursts of temper, disorganized thinking and morbid interest in such potential tools of destruction as guns or knives. Psychiatrists are quick to add that the appearance of even all those symptoms does not necessarily mean that a man is about to turn killer. But the symptoms do mean that he is in need of help...
ARIEL, by Sylvia Plath. Author Plath, who committed suicide at 30, wrote a mass of morbid but powerful poetry in the last few months of her unhappy life, and in the three years since her death has become the most celebrated woman poet of her generation...