Word: warpedness
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When David despairingly realizes his love for Claire is already withering and that he is only a victim of his own faults, he curses himself. He tells himself he is not one of those sympathetic lost characters out of Chekhov but the insane amputee in a story by Gogol who...
Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The British comedy group Monty Python has a sense of humor that shines on record and goes over well on television; unfortunately, a feature-length film can accommodate only so many ludicrous even offensive gags before the well runs dry. Seeing an insolent knight...
Werner Herzog serves as a textbook example of this Teutonic "New Wave." His work demands a special kind of viewer, a sensibility that can accommodate the warped and the damned souls of this world. His 1972 film Aguirre: The Wrath of God suggested Herzog's affinity for dwelling on the...
The story, which is based on a historical incident, turns on a double irony. Giannini is driven not by evil but by a warped nobility. In plotting the murder of Deneuve's cruel and boorish husband, he enmeshes his idealistic, freethinking family in an elaborate, tawdry scandal In turn...
Though Olive Ann Beech never learned to fly, her managerial skills brought the company through some problems at the turn of the decade, when the Viet Nam-warped economy hit sales hard. Rebounding from a loss of $7.7 million in fiscal 1970, the company has set new profit records in...