Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ferreri follows a straightforward method: He begins with decadence, then pushes it to its extreme. His timing is exact, always cutting away from a scene once depravity is well established, never carrying on for the sake of prurience. Followed properly, this method would shock, never titillate, but the double standards of soft-core pornography weaken The Grande Bouffe. The simulated sex becomes funny in otherwise serious scenes. The film leads from abuse of food to abuse of bodies, but the bodies are less real than the food, so the progression falls flat. A similar problem occurs in suggesting Michel Piccoli...
...number and seriousness of the rumors flying around Washington this week are further indication of the crisis of confidence. Congressmen are saying that Nixon is about to declare martial law; aides are passing the word that Nixon is starkraving mad and undergoing shock treatment; underlings in the executive are saying that Nixon is Mafia-connected and that's why he paroled Jimmy Hoffa and Gyp DiCarlo. The rumors are terrifying not only for what they say but because we have no means of judging how far-fetched they...
...have forgotten the theory behind republican institutions. They have forgotten that republican government is supposed to rest upon the consent of the governed, and, now that the people have been effectively cut off from the government and its doings, the government rests on grounds so shaky that the slightest shock could send the whole thing into...
...shock has come. But what is to come next...
...cold fury, reported TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark: "It is an icy resolve that has stilled the passing joke. Like the coming of the khamsin, the cruel desert wind that afflicts the spirit of all those in its path, the Arab attack has plunged Israel into a state of shock. The myth of Israeli invincibility and Arab ineptitude has been demolished at one stroke...