Word: soulless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Italians, like the French, are fearfully somber about their soulless, hellbent young-who, if a succession of tedious new-and old-wave films are to be believed, are constantly chewing gum, listening to jazz, riding motor scooters and wearing sunglasses in every conceivable stage of degradation. Every now and then, Director Mauro Bolognini remembers that he is supposed to sermonize, and there follows a cancer-at-the-heart-of-society scene. The punks unbutton their shirts to the navel (male exposure is the latest thing in social cancer) and lounge around glaring at one another. Nothing happens, which...
...Soulless Permanents. The cost of buying perishable fresh flowers and the trouble of maintaining them have helped the fake-flower boom. Though plastic blossoms often cost more than real flowers, they rarely have to be replaced, never clipped. Chicago Motivation Researcher Irving S. White insists that people buy artificial flowers because "they are afraid of death. There is nothing so obviously symbolic of death as the wilting away of a flower. Artificial flowers give people a sense of security, a feeling that life and beauty will go on forever...
...farthingale: "I think I'll go put on something a little more comfortable, like my husband." And when an overheated party girl who is trying to climb into Newman's cummerbund tells him, "I'm crowding 19," he asks, "Years or guys?" Actress Woodward is sexily soulless as a wife who flies her scarlet letter as if it were a cocktail pennant, and tauntingly calls up her lover while Newman broods (Newman does little but brood in the film, perhaps because of overexposure to Tennessee Williams). The lover is a psychiatrist, incidentally, and therein lies a small...
...list have died by violent accidents, even the authorities are clever enough to make the same deduction. The pages that follow are full of top-chop cloak-and-Luger writing, and Sleuth Anthony Gethryn has some uncomfortable moments before he tracks down an adversary fully as brilliant and soulless as that slippery Conan Doyle wrongo, Professor Moriarty...