Word: rug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cube a new rug. Oh, yeah, that was two years...
...then proceeds to interchange them at whim. It is his way of saying that the movie's subject is Mathieu's obsessive desire rather than the 'obscure object" that brings it about. There are many other rude jokes as well, all designed to pull the rug out from under civilization as we know it. Buñuel casts a dwarf as a professor of psychology and dreams up a clerical terrorist group called the Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus. When the two Conchitas implore Mathieu to respect their virginity, they are sometimes dressed in racy undergarments...
...occurs when Robert Preston, a Texas oilman who owns the team, attempts to proselytize for this cult. He has had an office built to facilitate practice of his new faith. It has a teeny-tiny door you can enter only on your knees, a legless desk resting on the rug, pictures hung at baseboard level...
...women sophomores who have been placed in a cramped room with an annoyingly bright-colored rug yesterday said they were dissatisfied. But two sophomore men who are living in a suite of two more spacious rooms and a kitchenette said they were pleased with their situation...
Charlotte Emory is a passive woman who has always longed to go on a journey unencumbered by family or things or even destination. Rooted to the little town of Clarion, where she was born, Charlotte sees her life "rolling out in front of her like an endless, mildewed rug." What she needs, she declares, is a "wilderness course." It is provided by a deus ex machina, played by a prison escapee, Jake Simms Jr., a self-described "victim of impulse." When Simms holds up a bank, Charlotte becomes a victim of irony-a hostage without the walking shoes...