Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Paris Designer Hubert de Givenchy outfitted his models with wigs in 1958, he thought of them merely as gimmicks. To American women the gimmick rapidly became a fact of life. According to some estimates, they now spend as much as $100 million a year on hairpieces, and their passion for perukes gave a lift to the wigmaking industry of Italy. Now Italy's wigmakers have run afoul of the Cold War, and they are tearing their hair...
...breaks into his prison cell where he stands crucified with ropes, rips off his shirt, and opens her blouse. We see their heads and nude shoulders in a close-up, then as she drops from the frame his gentle, bearded face falls to his shoulders in a Christian Passion pose. In this, as in his zooms on wounds, Malle at times seems eager to wrench his film from its genre, creating a tension it doesn't tolerate...
...complete picture of the accused-information that a jury should properly have if it is to judge a defendant's sanity. "Irresistible impulse" has become an additional ground for finding insanity in a few states, but impulse in practice has often had the effect of absolving "crimes of passion," not the coolly considered plots of equally insane...
Last week a New York Times editorial praised the "first serious public debate by responsible men on the Viet Nam issue-as initiated in the Fulbright hearings and carried forward by Senator Kennedy." Sulzberger wrote: "The Great Debate on Viet Nam policy has been featured by misinformation, passion, political opportunism, vanity, and hints of a smarmy dislike for President Johnson. What has emerged so far is a deep-seated doubt about ourselves and deep-seated ignorance of the world we inhabit. Elegant platitudes founded on myth are offered to the President as substitutes for policy...
Gielgud is already safely ensconced in the Olympus of English-speaking actors and it is a tribute to his talent that he continues to try new approaches. A director of his skill and standing was needed to infuse a new passion into Chekhov and restore the pistol shot to the core of Chekhov...