Word: sinful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defines himself through his ability to choose between good and evil, and when man's choice becomes a mechanized process, it is a sin and an abomination," Burgess said...
...ecclesiastical authorities begin to be nasty to the Franciscans, killing one of the brothers. St. Francis and his friends promptly go to Rome, where they plead their case before Pope Innocent III (Alec Guinness). The Pope is moved by their presence to ruminate aloud: "In our obsession with original sin, we forget about original grace." Zeffirelli apparently has forgotten about both...
...make the decision to move. The tautness increasing. This maddening tension as she fights feeling morbid about paralysis. She wants to love it. It is only that, if she does not conquer it, she will never be able to answer demands upon her. So? She equates abulia with original sin. Not like cigarettes, drinking, etc. She laughs. Come on woman, do it! The tremor of the laugh tickles down her body again. Then, finally, her eyes open of their own accord, and she rolls over and sits...
What were the film makers trying to prove? "The French are the victims of the sin of self-satisfaction," says De Sédouy. "They believe strongly in the responsibility of others, not in their own." Says Harris: "We hope that the film will upset people, will cause intellectual agitation. Our view of how the French have behaved in the past half-century is pessimistic, but nothing proves that they won't change...
...Spot." It may confront, more clearly than the first three books, the final purpose of Don Juan's painful teachings: a special case of the ancient desire to know, propitiate and, if possible, use the mysterious forces of the universe. In that pursuit, the splitting of the atom, the sin of Prometheus and Castaneda's search for a "power spot" near Los Angeles can all be remotely linked. A good deal of the magic Don Juan works on Castaneda in the books (making Carlos believe his car has disappeared, for instance) sounds like the kind of fakir rope trickery that...