Word: veronicas
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...antipasto and steak, and followed him, wringing their hands, as he walked past the pictures. Schubert, who believes that it is necessary to "police modernists," disapproved of Guignard's skyscraper cross, spear-bearing soldiers ("creatures from Mars") and the bloodied imprint of Christ's visage on Veronica's cloth ("a beheaded mule"). Then he delivered his decision: "I will tell the cardinal that these paintings can be consecrated...
...Cranes are Flying describes the shattering effect of war in highly personal terms. Director Mikhail Kalatozov presents us with a young couple deeply in love. There is no making-out on the screen, Boris and Veronica exchange no profound glances of desire; in fact there are no cinematic cliches which we are supposed to translate as meaning Love. But there is an affection between these people that is simply expressed, and simple to comprehend. And then there is war, and Boris is a volunteer...
...acting of Tatyana Samoilova, who plays Veronica, is as subtle and effective as her face is beautiful. It is her existence which is demolished by the war; she loses her parents, and needing love desperately, is unfaithful to Boris. The story centers on her struggle to find something worth living for amidst the ruins...
...Canadian, Ginger Coffey is a swiftly self-unmade man. Jobless, he spends the $600 his wife Veronica had set aside for return passage to Ireland. When he finally confesses this, Veronica sobs, slams and locks the bedroom door and leaves Ginger to warm his imagination on two quarts of beer. Armed with false courage and the recommendations of a cartoonist friend named Gerry Grosvenor, Ginger applies to the Montreal Tribune to become a Gentleman of the Press. But brrrr-tongued Managing Editor MacGregor, nicknamed Hitler by his staff, believes in starting everyone at the bottom, proofreading the galleys...
Hailstones from Home. Meanwhile Gerry Grosvenor has become the other man in Veronica's life, and Ginger tortures himself with erotic fantasies of the pair's love life. Husband and wife are reunited in an episode bordering on burlesque. Answering a call of nature in the entranceway of a fashionable hotel, a boozed-up Ginger is booked for "indecent exposure." Then, in a dankly contemplative mood in his overnight cell, Ginger finally grows up: "A man's life was nobody's fault...