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Wearing bright orange rubber gloves that extend just past the French cuffs of his delicate shirt, Michel Piccoli lifts the head of a slaughtered calf high above his own head. "To be, or not to be," he screams in a shrill voice. Ugo Tognazzi makes a loud farting noise, tongue between his lips, and the feast begins. Kidneys bourguinon. Kidneys bordelaise. Crayfish a la Mozart. Each dish has an identity of its own, but the diners ignore all subtlety in order to concentrate more conscientiously on their suicidal quest. Marcello Mastroianni stuffs down six clams in one bite. Grubby fingers...
...tongue--it never changes anything, and the high tension prays relentlessly on an audience. The bursts of voltage are supplied by the setting: a needle in an arm, a siren, a scream, a Fat City sequence of a man waking alone ringing with hangover and dreams burning off fast, shrill urban music--devices like these make up for hours of narrative padding or careful ambience-building. It's a modern movie language...
...late Auden, who spent his summers in Austria and his winters in a cluttered Greenwich Village apartment, was a graceful poet full of wisdom and knowledge, an awareness of human frailty, a persistent but not shrill hope, if not of heaven, at least of Judgment Day. He was also civilized, witty and endlessly inventive. He could write of himself without being a bore, recording "Thoughts of his own death/ like the distant roll/ of thunder at a picnic," wryly admitting that "Gluttony and Sloth have often protected him from Lust and Anger," and boasting gently that he was not vain...
...Family two seasons ago as a visiting cousin. Since spinning off on her own last year, Maude has stirred things up with shows on the legalization of marijuana and the sham of radical chic, as well as a two-part episode on abortion that roused a particularly shrill outcry when it was rerun over the summer (TIME...
Insulated from his devotees by security guards uniformed in white carnations, he spoke in a shrill, small-boy's voice, with only a trace of an accent. In his rambling, anecdotal, half-hour satsang discourse, the Guru said that happiness springs from knowledge of the kinetic energy within each person...