Word: wretchedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In gist, Marat/Sade shows Sade's little company reenacting the death of the Revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat at the hand of the Royalist Charlotte Corday, before a stage audience of Charenton's director and his lady. But the murder is strung out by the philosophical intrusions of Sade, who...
Certainly the high life at home seems varied enough, what with nude swimming, hot summer nights at the Moon Lake Casino, and Kay Francis movies at the Delta Brilliant Theater. Added excitement turns up, though, in the person of Robert Redford, exuding chin-out charm as a railroad troubleshooter who...
Hope, locked into a star image that no fiction will penetrate, nominally portrays an Oregon real estate schnook who calls a wrong number and soon has Elke bathing at his remote woodland cottage. "The biggest thing in bathtubs since rings," he says, snatching every conversational gambit from a store of...
I wonder to what extent the dismal public image of marihuana is a consequence of its route of entry. The medieval Assassins made Cannabis known as a plant that inspired fierce courage. Baudelaire gave it credit for being a gateway to worlds of visionary delight. But the wretched people who...
Living year-round in this wretched tourist town is a gang of resolute ne'er-do-wells who wait for the swinging summer months to con the vacationers. Leader of the group is Tinker (Oliver Reed), a street photographer and sex mechanic, who snaps pictures of new arrivals, his...