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...homicidal psychopath. The sexual subcurrents of his sickness are brought out by his mistress (Florinda Bolkan), who is entranced by his bloody profession. The film opens on his last visit to her. "How will you kill me this time?" she coquettishly asks. "I'll cut your throat," he replies. And so he does, as they make love. With deliberate clumsiness, he steals her jewelry (but not her 300,000 lire), leaves his fingerprints in the shower and bloody shoeprints. Then he takes two bottles of champagne back to the office to help his colleagues celebrate his new promotion...
...Incas, whose sudden appearance here may well amaze you, had a just punishment for the Spaniards who were torturing them to find where Inca gold was hidden. When they captured a Spaniard they melted gold and poured it down his throat. David Lean should, I think, be stuffed with the filthiest of dollar bills received at the box-offices of theatres running Ryan's Daughter. Until such a plan can be put into effect. I think all production and exhibition should be stopped. I honestly do. TV especially. Then in about ten years, or however long it takes...
...disease. They then began a desperate battle to save the youngster by treating not the infection itself-which responds to drugs poorly, if at all, once it has begun -but the secondary effects that kill its victims. Placing Matthew in intensive care, they put a tube in his throat to enable him to breathe and prevent him from choking on his own saliva. They also monitored his heart to assure the proper rhythm and administered drugs to prevent the violent convulsions that characterize rabies...
...doctors obviously did something right. Though Matthew became critically ill in mid-November and was semicomatose for several days, he has made remarkable progress since then. The tracheotomy tube has been removed from his throat, he has regained the use of his left arm and has begun to undergo speech therapy to overcome impairment to his vocal cords. Other rabies victims have survived longer, but none has shown so much improvement at this stage of the illness...
...then Sumner Redstone cleared his throat, only too aware of the Paramount brass awaiting their introductions and the present Harvard administrators and his wife's eager friends certainly having the time of their dreary old Bostonian lives, and Sumner began his speech, only, to his horror, to meet with drunken laughter and then suddenly all he could see was some kid in a back row waving an empty bottle...