Word: roache
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Suitor is a crazy little film, crammed with Dadaist episodes and droll vignettes. Much of it has a silent-movie look, almost as if it had been made at the old Hal Roach studios under the direction of a zany genius...
Reunion (Benny Golson; Jazzland). A leading saxophonsit in all-star company: Kenny Dorham, trumpet; J. J. Johnson, trombone; Wynton Kelly, piano; Paul Chambers, bass; Max Roach, drums...
...convict hovering over the minuscule pyre, "or else the fire of heaven will consume your flesh amid hideous sufferings." Cries another: "Confess that the Prince of Evil has appeared to you and seduced you, but that you see the light and that repentance floods your heart." But the roach says nothing and goes up in flames. "She's damned. God forgive...
...four men cooped up in a single cell pass the time. They call their quaint little game The Torture of Joan of Arc, and it is a symptom of their terrible sense of guilt, which consumes them as the flames consume the roach. A preoccupation with guilt is nothing new for modern French novelists, but Jean Cau. 37, examines the meaning of guilt more exhaustively than even Camus or Sartre-though not always with their clarity. A controversial journalist as well as a novelist and playwright, Cau won the 1961 Prix Goncourt for The Mercy...
...ultimately be consumed by alcohol, "I like the water--not up close where it's all dirty, but farther out where it's clean. Sometimes, though, it frightens me. I think, a sea monster will rise up and swallow me." In another, Lemmon is spraying Remick's apartment with roach killer. "You'll just get them excited," she objects, and sure enough out rush dozens of her fellow apartment dwellers to protest the action...