Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most interesting aspect of this otherwise sleazy movie is its laissez-faire morality. Private eyes, and movies about them, generally adhere to a moral code so strict that it often looks sentimental. Black Eye remains unruffled about everything from homosexuality and runaway kids to mind-warping evangelism and slaughter in the name of the law. By comparison with Stone, Mike Hammer would look like Lancelot of the Lake...
...lead a man to slaughter, but you can't make him think...
...game was delayed for ten minutes in the top of the sixth and the ten or twelve spectators hoped the umpire would call the game to mercifully end the then 8-0 slaughter. But the ump, apparently not a proponent of euthanasia, resumed the game when the rain let up to a mere sprinkle in spite of muddy basepaths that resembled swamp roads...
...into tradition. Their rabbinical body, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, has issued a new Haggadah, copiously and dramatically illustrated, that restores the old sense of ritual to the ancient celebration that begins this week. The plagues are back, though with a difference ("Our triumph is diminished by the slaughter of the foe"), and so is the closing wish for reunion in Jerusalem. The revised rite even endorses a search for the hametz, in which pieces of leavened bread are hidden so that children can have the delight of hunting for them...
...look like the latest thing in a trendy magazine: "Germany - Forgive and Forget" or "The Fatherland: Two Decades of Remorse." The subject of the film is a prominent German industrialist who may or may not have participated in executing most of a Greek village. His complicity in this wartime slaughter may also have driven his son (played, for his brief appear ance, by Schell) to his death. Peter Hall, new head of Britain's National Theater, puts in an anomalous but welcome jolly appearance as a press lord who pays equal and fastidious attention to politics and pinups...