Word: warpedness
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"Trying to reform capitalism to achieve scientific capitalism is like painting the insides of a concentration camp," Baraka said. "Life will remain warped until this parasitic structure, monopoly capitalism, is destroyed and the parasites running it are destroyed."
The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End is an account of Enderby's (no first name) death. But it is also an allegorical satire aimed primarily at a dimly perceived America and especially at Stanley Kubrick's bastardization of A Clockwork Orange. Enderby is a poet who has passed his...
Clearly, the aim here is oblique; the all-star cast is being used to reflect some sort of distortion upon itself. Something should happen when Ingrid Bergman parodies her idealistic, spiritual Elsa of thirty years ago. Nothing does; it's played for laughs. Maybe when you have such an assemblage...
There is a bad side to life in Amarcord: fascism and especially the Church, with its laughable confessionals and pathetic attempts at education. But the schoolchildren Fellini focuses on aren't warped or victimized by the Church--they exploit it, puncture it almost effortlessly, without retribution. Even the ordinary cruetly...
When Nixon came to power, he, like L.B. J., warped the role of the Vice President. Nixon used Spiro Agnew as a destructive political force, isolating him almost entirely from policy deliberations.