Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Setting up a Harvard Management Company will probably be considerably cheaper than farming Harvard's endowment out to existing management companies, so it will minimize the financial shock of switching from State Street. Many of State Street's partners graduated from the College or the Business School, and the firm managed Harvard's money at a nominal $100,000 annual...
Like "Last Tango," "The Grande Bouffe" derives added shock value from the presence of stars: it's not Linda Lovelace, but respectable people like Marcello Mastroianni and Ugo Tognazzi taking the chance of their careers, letting loose, talking dirty, abandoning themselves to the urges of the unleashed libido...
...tantalizing blend: the dirty movie with the heart of an impassioned medieval moralist. The director has the puritan's inevitable fascination with sin and corruption: he's titillated by what he shows us, but he's repelled, too--and it's that moralistic disapproval, that unconcealable sense of shock, that separates his work, for all its salacious preoccupations, from that of the true, unstricken pornographers...
When he learns his life has been no more real than a Paddy joke-that he is Scottish on both sides-the news affects Jack like expulsion from Eden. What is a Scotsman? Jack undergoes a case of nine-year shock trying to answer. First he becomes a non-Irishman-a "neutral man," practically evaporating in the arms of his girl Elizabeth, a perfect colleen stereotype with "about seventy-six brothers and sisters, and a drunken no-good father...
...graphic enough and features, besides several odd sexual couplings, scenes of vomiting, diarrhea and other indelicate interludes. None are very pleasant, but none are really disturbing either, because Ferreri is not using them for any other purpose except would-be shock. He does not deal in satire that could threaten or amuse, that could give the sequences substance and, therefore, true impact. His careful chronicle of the dietary excesses of four men is like a prank-a loud, bad practical joke. The men-Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli and Philippe Noiret-hole up in an old house...