Word: morbidness
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...Morbid Procrastination. The jury convicted Sheller for willful cheating. But while he was on bail appealing his six-month sentence, the U.S. Court of Appeals issued a key decision...
...vast majority of youths in Western societies go through long periods of protracted sexual tension. With the welfare of man as his criterion, Simons suggests that it is psychologically better for them to release this tension by masturbation than to prolong it at the risk of developing a morbid preoccupation with sex. The Catholic church's inflexibility in condemning remarriage after divorce is also not in accord with the modern view of human welfare. All efforts should be made to discourage and prevent divorce, Simons says, but he also believes that it would be better to permit remarriage...
...works as an inspector for a chain of grocery stores and looks like a small grey pig wearing spectacles. Humiliated by his appearance, he assumes a mask of in difference that puts off the people he works with and drives his wife (Ann Todd) to drink. Inevitably, the morbid love-hate of women that is hidden in the inspector's heart bursts out in an ambiguous compulsion to punish and to prowl...
...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...