Word: slime
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...wrote Howl, a sort of abstract-expressionist Waste Land that established him overnight as "the Abominable Snowman of modern poetry." (Like that's the most, man.) Howl is an astounding screed, an interminable sewer of a poem that sucks in all the feculence, malignity and unmeaning slime of modern life and spews them with tremendous momentum into the reader's mind. Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men weeping in the parks...
...View from the Bridge (Continental), like the drama by Arthur Miller from which it is adapted, is a grim and misguided attempt to make Pentelic marble of Brooklyn brick; to find in the moral slime of a slum episode the ink in which to write Greek tragedy as it was written in the golden age. Inevitably, the attempt fails; but the failure is impressive. The film, perhaps even more vividly than the play, demonstrates the Gnostic precept that when the seven deadly sins are counted, there is still one more. Its name is Ignorance, and it is as quick...
...preasure on the Wesleyan goal continued unabated for the next ten minutes. Finally Doug Gifford, digging the ball out of the slime and a pile of players in front of the goal, slipped it in to complete the Crimson scoring...
Other items: The Savage Eye, a vastly more important piece of cinema that has won several big prizes in Europe, takes a disturbing, 65-minute plunge in the garbage-choked stream of a neurotic consciousness. The script, written in raw, hard-sell poetry ("The slime of loveless love, masturbation by proxy") by Ben (The Asphalt Jungle} Maddow, traces a year in the life and mind of a young divorcee (Barbara Baxley), "living on bourbon, cottage cheese and alimony" in Los Angeles. "Sick of the touch of human skin," she lives alone at first, lolls in beauty shops, dawdles...
...ignorance of some people is ofttimes appalling; do not South Africa's Prime Minister Verwoerd and the mass of cretins cavorting behind him, in the slime and filth that is his belief, even suspect what is to be the certain fate of their children? Bloodshed and tyranny lead to but more bloodshed and tyranny...