Word: tigress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Viet Nam's Buddhism, like China's and Japan's, is predominantly Mahayana, and the suicide monks and nuns knew the numerous legends of bodhisattvas' physical sacrifices, such as that of the holy man who gave his body to a famished tigress to keep her from eating her cubs. Some Mahayana monks still aid their liberation from the body by burning the fingers off their left hands, and in the 6th century-before gasoline-monks who decided to immolate themselves completely would eat waxy and fatty foods for a couple of years so they would burn...
...onetime Hearst reporter, Adela trailed her father to court from the age of eight. When her mother left home, Adela even accompanied him to his favorite brothel and joined one of the girls in duets on the piano. She protected Rogers, she admits, with the devotion of a tigress, and she is protecting him still. But out of her book's gushing prose Rogers emerges as a remarkably earthy personality, part rapscallion, part Robin Hood...
Universal Guilt. The hero of Zeko is a forlorn little shadow of a man who returns to Belgrade after fighting in World War I. Rootless and despairing, he is browbeaten by a tigress of a wife called the Cobra, and bullied by her son, who may or may not be his. But when World War II breaks out, Zeko snaps out of his malaise. He sees a group of peasants hanged from lampposts by the Nazis, and in sudden outrage, he resolves to join the underground. Simultaneously, he finds the courage to revolt against the tyranny of his wife...
...believe how a woman, if she is not the devil in disguise, can make such a malicious man-hating appeal. She should understand that in the fire of nuclear war millions of people would perish, including her own children, if she has any. Even the wildest of animals, a tigress even, worries about her cubs, licks and pities them...
...such, it is nevertheless lively and diverting. Belmondo, who in Breathless emerged in one catlike bound as the French Bogart, here plays the polar opposite of that part and plays it with wit and sensitivity. And Loren, though hardly the woman Moravia had in mind, makes a superlative tigress. Cunning, selfish, sensual, ferocious and above all female, she leaps on her passions and tears them to spectacular tatters...