Word: soullessly
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Warwick, R.I., Musical Theater: Steve Lawrence as the soulless heel in Pal Joey...
...into the rat-infested tenement hovels of the bruisingly poor, the lower depths of the richest city on earth. The film piles melodrama too heavily on its plot, but the harsh-grained honesty of its photography and the improvisational candor of its script make every tabloid cliche about the soulless city bristle with fresh life...
Then begins the soulless parade of empty months. One day, as Stroud paces around the prison yard in a scene so desolatingly forlorn that Dante might have pictured it as another circle of Hell, a cloudburst drops a baby sparrow at his feet. Stroud carries it to his cell, cradles it in a sock, nourishes it on ground-up cockroaches. Relatives of other prisoners start sending them canaries. Soon the entire isolation block is trilling, and convicts who get bored with their pets give them to Stroud to keep. With painstaking perfectionism, he fashions cages out of packing crates...
Moloch the crossbone soulless jailhouse and Congress of Sorrows! . . . Moloch the vast stone of war! Moloch the stunned governments! Moloch whose mind is pure machinery ! Moloch whose blood is running money...
...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...