Word: rottenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...These rotten little kids are meant to carry the freight of the novel's frenzied bully-boy philosophy. In this hapless screen translation by Lewis John Carlino (a scenarist making his directorial debut), they just come off looking like second-class citizens of The Village of the Damned. Fortunately, it is impossible to take the movie seriously on any level. A film maker who uses pounding pistons and dripping hoses for phallic symbols is a threat only to himself...
...could squash you like a rotten melon...
Something was rotten on the 17th floor of Rockefeller Center...
...fulfilled. This "revolution" is merely turmoil in which everybody is at once a guerrilla and a leader. And its only direct effect is the death of a woman who never figured in imperialism or revolution, but who is transformed, or "chewed up," as the whites say, first into the "rotten meat" of miscegenation, then the "bloody meat" of retribution. But if revolutionaries are depraved charlatans, imperialists are incompetent almoners, and revolutions are fitful little altercations, what is Naipaul saying about legitimate struggles for independence from imperialistic, capitalist nations? His focus on the personal problems of his actors--his obsession with...
...owned water mills on the River Stour. He lived a life of blameless bourgeois obscurity, alternating between London and the Suffolk countryside with his wife Maria Bicknell, who bore him seven children. At 45, he wrote to a friend: "The sound of water escaping from Mill dams ... willows, Old rotten Banks, slimy posts, & brickwork. I love such things ... I should paint my own places best-Painting is but another word for feeling. I associate my 'careless boyhood' to all that lies on the banks of the Stour. They made me a painter (and I am grateful...