Word: sickest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most critically and financially successful movies to come out of Hollywood in the past twenty years. But what does he want from us? That's the tricky question, and one which must be asked, since Wilder's movies are not only among Hollywood's most successful but among its sickest as well...
...HOUSING STARTS. Perhaps the sickest of all major U.S. industries, housing rarely yields any reason for optimism. With high interest rates, the industry has suffered as potential home buyers have shied from signing costly mortgages. But the Census Bureau reported last week that housing starts in July on a seasonally adjusted annual rate had risen by more than 100,000 to 1.36 million-the highest level of housing starts since April 1966, just before the acute shortage of mortgage money...
...Annerose finds appealing but scarcely persuasive; Octavio, a muscular young industrialist who believes in exactly nothing and who finally proposes to Annerose a commitment she finds compelling. "What else does beauty need," he asks, "but the chance to be destroyed?" What, indeed? In a scene involving some of the sickest psychology since Sade, she invites him to mutilate her breasts with a carving knife...
...murky and grey, except for the occasional white fluff of detergent suds. Once England's M.P.s fished for salmon in the Thames at Westminster. No more. In Poland, the Vistula's filtration system is clogged with silt and scum, and Warsaw must tap other water sources. Sickest of all the Great Lakes, Erie is so close to dying that the states along its shore face the prospect of paying a billion dollars apiece for pollution control...
...should not surprise the American public that Barry Goldwater is for God, Mother and country, and against sick jokes, off-color drama and pornography. The pity is that he does not realize that he himself is the author of the sickest joke of the year-asking us to make William Miller Vice President...