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...Northumberland. There all alone lives a rather odd couple: a flabby old fool (Donald Pleasence) who dismally fails to satisfy the snippy little chippy (Françoise Dorléac) he has recently wed. She lusts for excitement, and suddenly she gets it. A mobster on the lam (Lionel Slander) staggers into the castle one fine day and institutes a nerve-shredding reign of terror: flashes his firearms, slashes the phone wires, crashes the liquor closet, mashes the host's nose, lashes the wife's bottom, smashes the family Jag, and generally behaves like the sort of fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Razor-Edged Slapstick | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...forgets himself and nearly rapes her. Sade is whipped -- in London and New York with Corday's flowing hair, since the decency laws forbade public flagellation -- and here with a lash of six flat leather tails. Marat sinks into darkness and confronts the ghosts of his past, who slander his childhood, and Voltaire and Lavoisier, who mock his scientific achievements -- all played by a writhing tableau of mental patients...

Author: By Stuart A. Davis, | Title: Marat/Sade | 10/29/1966 | See Source »

...rabbits for sport. The cool mechanics of death are recorded in some of the most grisly hunt scenes ever filmed, and during a long, hot afternoon the lust for killing slowly grinds toward a fitting climax. Boozing and broiling in the sun, the men try to buy, sell and slander one another. The hair triggers of anxiety touch off frustrations over their wives, mistresses, businesses, and their expanding waistlines. And at last the verbal sniping takes a deadly turn-hunters hunting hunters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Eyes Have It | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

Prosecutor: Your story says that, "As usual, the paper [Izvestia] printed an editorial calling for observance of Public Murder Day." Isn't that slander on the entire Soviet press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Public Murder Day | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

CAMERA THREE (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). One of the earliest Negro activists was a slave named Sojourner Truth. She was born in 1797, and she went to court to test segregation, retrieve a child from slavery, sue a white man for slander. This program dramatizes her struggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Jun. 24, 1966 | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

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