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Word: trankly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1966-1966
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Truffaut's hero (Oskar Werner) is a member of the brigade, a pyromanic punk who sincerely believes that "books are just rubbish" and should be burned. After a hard day at the cultural crematorium, he cools off with tranquilizers, sits staring at the wall screen with his trank-tanked wife (Julie Christie), and sinks slowly into nothinkness. One day, riding home on the monorail, he meets a girl (Julie Christie) who looks like his wife but has something more exciting on her mind. "Have you ever read the books you burn?" she asks him slyly. He hasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Out of Nothinkness | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

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