Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chairman of the State Committee, Doherty is supposed to avoid criticizing his party or its leaders. But the sting of last year's defeats has left him so bitter that he cannot remain alert. Remembering the ruinous interparty squabbling of the past, such as last year's Bellotti-Peabody fiasco, he blames the Democrats' failures on their lack of party discipline. If Bellotti had run for reelection as lieutenant governor, instead of challenging his own incumbent governor, both would have won impressive victories, according to Doherty...
Heat, thirst, mounting casualties and mutual distrust corrode the men's nerves, and the dialogue provided by Scenarist Lukas Heller is full of sting. Producer-Director Robert Aldrich, cool as a vulture, all but dawdles over these verbal wounds, as though choosing his victims for the violence to come. The shocks occur when least expected, notably in the delicate prologue and grisly aftermath of an encounter with a band of Arab cutthroats. An occasional wheeze of sentimentality, even a needless mirage sequence featuring Dancer Barrie Chase, are minor lapses. Most of the time, Phoenix flexes its muscles...
...Deadly Sting. Merciless...
When members of his coalition threatened to rebel, he yanked them into line by the sheer force of his personality and his ruthless tongue. So deadly was his sting in Parliament ("The conducted tour of the Honorable Member's mind would have been more instructive if it had not taken place in gathering darkness") that opposition backbenchers were once cautioned against needling him. To a parliamentary complaint that he had a superiority complex, Menzies could only agree. "Considering the company I keep in this place," he snapped, "that is hardly surprising...
...deadly years later, Joe finds that he has risen to the top only to hang there, skewered. The poor little rich girl whom he had to marry because she was pregnant is now a bored little rich bitch, played by Jean Simmons with just enough sting to paralyze a mate but not quite enough to kill the pain. "It isn't what you expected, is it?" she says knowingly, then as an idle, needling afterthought: "Have you ever had a colored girl?" Joe answers no to both questions. What he's got is a shaky executive...