Word: selfishnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Women (in Italian). Sophia Loren as a cunning, selfish, ferocious and sensuous mother and Eleonora Brown as her teen-aged daughter in a grim drama of World War II Italy...
...nevertheless lively and diverting. Belmondo, who in Breathless emerged in one catlike bound as the French Bogart, here plays the polar opposite of that part and plays it with wit and sensitivity. And Loren, though hardly the woman Moravia had in mind, makes a superlative tigress. Cunning, selfish, sensual, ferocious and above all female, she leaps on her passions and tears them to spectacular tatters...
...enamored of men of power. Kennedy, by virtue of the office he holds and by temperament, is a man of power. Since he wants to hold power for himself and his party, he must manipulate situations and people consciously, sometimes cynically, for his own and his party's selfish advantage...
...interest in other forms of writing, however, has remained basic and permanent. For Miss Gordimer, the need to communicate feelings and ideas is the nucleus around which the story takes shape and substance. "You want to say something. It comes from inside. It's a terribly selfish thing. You want to express yourself. Because other people are fundamentally like you, they find it interesting...
...thus a pity that Germany's aid offer is niggardly and selfish, for generous assistance at this point would allay their worries about estrangement from Kennedy. Germany had a two billion dollar surplus in its balance of payments last year, compared with America's $3,800,000 deficit. Yet all but ten million of the billion dollar aid offer German officials have billed "generous" is earmarked for pre-payment on arms purchases and loans from the U.S. which Germany would have spent the money on anyway...