Word: passionlessness
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...official who defected two years ago. The years of solitary confinement left their mark on Honecker, an obsessively neat man who wears heavy hornrimmed spectacles and is known as "Granite Face" among East Europeans. "If he were not so utterly dedicated to orthodoxy, one could say he was totally passionless," says one Communist diplomat. "He is fussy to the point of absurdity," reports another. Before his aides dust his desk, they make a diagram showing precisely where everything is placed. After dusting, everything is returned to its proper spot...
...expanding porno market, is sex education. Such how-to-do-it movies as Man and Wife and Marital Fulfillment clinically demonstrate the positional permutations of coitus. Few if any of the pictures released so far in either genre are particularly erotic. Depicting sex that is crude, loveless and even passionless, they are really horror movies-repellent not so much for their immorality as for their inhumanity...
...doing. One gets the distinct impression that if he changed his stance-for instance, if he were to call the war a mistake and announce a much faster exit -El Dorado would go along with him. Most people instinctively stand with the President. Richard Nixon himself, apparently a passionless man. provokes a passionless, no-alternative kind of support; but the President of the U.S. remains a strong focus of loyalty and hope. More than a "pause" from crisis, El Dorado rather desperately wants leadership...
...contains generous quotas of epidermis in action, Blue's primary attraction is hardly unique. Furthermore, endless interviews about insular Swedish political matters give the film the air of a kind of raunchy master's thesis. The sex scenes, when they do occur, are even more blah and passionless than Yellow's. If the end result of Yellow was soporific, the cumulative effect of Blue will probably be catatonic...
...CURIOUS (YELLOW). Yes, yes, this is the movie everyone is talking about, but, as in all gossip, things tend to get exaggerated in the retelling. To set the record straight: the drama is nonexistent, the style derivative, the sociology boring and the sex a passionless fake...