Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spinster, but the malevolence of cruel sexuality. All her dewyeyed clinging to a golden past is merely the weapon she uses to emasculate Giorgio's overworshipful maleness at the altar of a bitchgoddess. Not only cold, she is consciously evil. Raising her eyes to meet Giorgio's tormented shock of recognition through the garden-house window, when he discovers her with Malnate, she stares back at him with the full meanness of her decayed sensibilities. With a magnificently erotic gesture, she tosses the shawl she had draped around herself over Malnate to cover his nakedness, exposing her own nudity with...
...took him to visit the battlefield at Stalingrad. De Gaulle pensively surveyed the terrain, then turned to the Russians and said: "A great people-[pause] the Germans." The story, perhaps apocryphal, tells much about the man: his frosty independence, his detached historical perspective, his ability to deliver the calculated shock...
...only that violence is suddenly more explicit--it is certainly that--but now it is also expertly crafted. Roman Polanski is simply too technically proficient to be dismissed as a dealer in shock value. Sam Peckinpah is not just fascinated by violence, he is good...
...Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick's vision of future shock, Cinema 57,200 Stuart St., Boston...
...doing he has carved a formidable political image on the national consciousness: Nixon is the one who in spite of all of the hostile indifference of the deck has bluffed future shock...