Word: pitilessly
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...sight of blood"). Success got its savor from fine performances by Dependable Actress Eileen Heckart and TV's perennial Big-Business Boss Everett Sloane, stood in a class apart from the summer insipidity by managing to meet some of TV's toughest demands: a neatly organized plot, pitiless closeups and split-second scene switching from one effective set to another. But in the end it foundered on the debatable thesis that Success is mostly a matter of being able to tell the boss to go to hell...
...from their public representatives . . . have always been opposed by groups that seek or have special privileges. The spokesmen of these greedy groups never rest in their opposition to exposure and publicity. That is because special privilege thrives in secrecy and darkness and is destroyed by the rays of pitiless publicity...
...which has matured in the conditions of the People's Republic of Poland." Most juvenile prostitutes Lastik describes as the victims of "the prudishness of many persons emphasizing their 'socialism.' " He found that "over 80% of prostitutes were from working-class or peasant families which are pitiless for every moral slip. The unfortunate daughter is expelled from her home and her fellow workers turn against her." The syphilis rate is more than twice what it was in Poland three years ago, largely because "after the official statement that prostitution had been liquidated a number of venereal disease...
Perhaps the most debatable part of the film is the pitiless realism of the direction, which seems to border on the sensational, for instance, a harrowing close-up of a spinal injection, or a most realistic attempted rape...
There is a pitiless closeup of an ailing, sorrowing Woodrow Wilson, after he had lost his crusade for internationalism-and an equally telling shot of Warren Gamaliel Harding as he testily misses a short putt. The Ku Klux Klan parades in great billowing ranks down Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue and through a flare-lit initiation ceremony in a Georgia glade. J. P. Morgan stares inscrutably through a Wall Street window, Josephine Baker struts her stuff at the U.S.-tourist-packed Folies-Bergère, Al Capone waddles contemptuously in and out of a courthouse, Babe Ruth rounds the bases...