Word: queered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...owner has to be queer for old cars to hold on to one, but in much of Latin America, the economies run on the uncertain wheels of old jalopies...
Suddenly a queer breed of cat comes prowling into this mousy existence. The bookkeeper's employer (Robert Morley) falls in love with an American efficiency expert (Constance Cummings) and puts her on the payroll. "Join the 20th century!" she bellows belligerently at Morley and his stunned subordinates, and proceeds to raise corporate Ned in the name of progress. She redecorates the offices, installs time clocks, adding machines, squawk boxes. Soon she is threatening to fire the tweed weavers. "Make cloth for millions-synthetic fiber...
...Eisenstein died before he could make the necessary changes. For the next ten years, Part 2 lay unseen in the Soviet Film Archive. In 1958, five years after Stalin's death, the film was at last released, and is now being seen in the U.S. It is a queer, lugubrious, horribly beautiful adagio, the second movement in an opus conceived, in formal terms, as a mighty concerto for the camera...