Word: shame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foreign guests hostage. A truce was arranged in which Hussein made most of the concessions, but it lasted only until September, when the P.F.L.P. hijacked three airliners, blew them up in the Jordanian desert, and openly challenged the army. This time Hussein, decrying the renewed fighting as a "shame to the Arab people," resolved to crush the guerrillas and succeeded...
...Hour of the Wolf, his next film, seemed a throwback, a last effort to exorcise personal demons in a traditional story film. But the subsequent Shame is a vision completely externalized. The film begins in darkness; an alarm clock rings, bedroom shades are thrown open, and until the portrayed artist and his wife finally set adrift in a sea of war dead, the audience is enveloped in a dream objectified by the directness of Bergman's artistry. One recognizes the degree of control the filmmaker has exercised because his film is so concentrated, so perfectly removed from the real world...
...sense of "unspeakable trauma" hides beneath Israel's bustle of self-assertion. An excess of pride is matched by an excess of shame. The "urge to forget and suppress" is as compulsive as "the urge to remember" and to ask without ceasing: "Who is a Jew?" There is a mood of permanent danger, of being encircled and alone...
...women, the hard life has gotten to Boston Joey and he just cannot play like he used to. Joe Dimaggio, the pool hustler from New Jersey, was talking about him the other day- "I seem him in Indianapolis and he couldn't make a ball. It's a shame cause he used to be one hell of a pool player...
...prominent intellectuals (among them: Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Alberto Moravia and Carlos Fuentes) protested. But what got him out, five weeks later, were his own words. Padilla abjectly confessed to "a series of insults and defamations against the revolution, which are now-and always will be-my shame." He accused European leftist Writers K.S. Karol and René Dumont, who recently published critical studies of Castro's regime (TIME. Feb. 8), of being "unquestionably CIA agents...