女神殿

homily
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–noun
1. a sermon, usually on a Biblical topic and usually of a nondoctrinal nature.
2. an admonitory or moralizing discourse.
3. an inspirational saying or cliché. 
　
 With a sun-spotted approach evoking equal parts Dogme 95 and Go Ask Alice, first-time director Jordan Melamed's languish[ing] 2001 Sundance-screened debut dutifully updates the plotless life-in-institution film to account for recent developments in rap-metal. 
Manic's milieu is a lockdown, pill-policed juvie detention center housing a supervised and therapized jumble of violent and sexual offenders, traumatized abusees, and recent-onset schizophrenics. At times, especially when soft talk/big stick counselor Don Cheadle is pressed into [preacher] mode, the mood gets Sipowicz-style homiletic. 

But often the script (co-written by Michael Bacall, who plays sardonic bipolar rich kid Chad) rings clear with mouths-of-babes declamations that all pained kids spew before down[ing] adulthood's suck-it-up Kool-Aid.

remonstrate
expostulate
where they expostulate their [views] on life and reflect on the state of their relationships with one another
exhort 
admonish & encourage!!!
exponent
a person or thing that expounds
an exponent of modern [theory] in the arts.  
[Lincoln] is an exponent of American democracy.  
As a strict [exponent] of unpleasure, however, Haneke will permit none of the narrative thrills the Coens provide in their funny games.
Flabbergast

duress
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–noun
1. compulsion by threat or force; coercion; constraint.
2. Law. such constraint or coercion as will render void a contract or other legal act entered or performed under its influence.
3. forcible restraint, esp. imprisonment.
—Synonyms 
1. intimidation, pressure, bullying, browbeating.
　
That circumstance forces Jim -- under paternal duress -- to fill in for Tim as an elementary school girls' basketball team coach, and to work at the dreaded ladder factory owned by mom and dad. The factory also employs black-sheep relation Uncle Stacy (Mark Boone Jr.), who prefers to be called Evil, and deals drugs out of the oblivious parents' business.
sweatbox
as it [tumbles] and [swirls] in the direction of a [gadgeted] sweatbox in which the hero's mental reflexes are relentlessly conditioned under stress.
penitentiary
slammer
landing her in the [slammer] and Ed at the mercy of [blowhard] big-city lawyer Freddy Riedenschneider. 
carcinogen
cf. incineration
incarceration
their [in]quisition, and eventually their [in]carceration by the other side 
which helps formerly [homeless] or [incarcerated] people learn [vocational] skills and become active members of their communities.
coop
Based on the true story of the Wineville Chicken [Coop] Murders, also known as the Wineville Chicken Murders.
snare
to snare her [into] going. 
even blow Spider-Man's [webbing] away from Scarlotti preventing him from being [ensnared].
that one impulsive action can set in motion a web of fate that ultimately [ensnares] the hero,
alchemy 
bullion
ingot
and key plan of a heist for landing a haul of $4 million in gold [ingots] from a security van in Turin, Italy.
drachma
peseta
Watch. I am taking 5,000 peseta note. You're my witness. 
wad
Irina always has a sizable [wad] of [cash] in her pocket 
a wad of [paper] [tobacco]
He wadded [up] his cap and [stuck] it into his pocket. 
They [rammed] and [wadded] the [shot] into their muskets.
quid
Fourteen thousand quid we offered.
sterling
The [sterling] equivalent is #5.50. 
a sterling [teapot] 
This factor is best actualized by the film's sterling [cast]
allowing the sterling [cast] of actors to play out a complex range of feelings.
trove
[treasure]-trove
After stumbling upon a [hidden] trove of diaries
and back-alley biblio [troves] atingle [with] hissed warnings
Ensconce

cauterize
Y

rancor
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D
–noun
bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice.
Also, especially British, rancour.
—Related forms
rancored; especially British, rancoured, adjective 
—Synonyms 
bitterness, spite, venom, animosity. See malevolence. 
Malevolence, malignity, rancor suggest the wishing of harm to others. 
Malevolence is a smoldering ill will: a vindictive malevolence in her expression. 
Malignity is a deep-seated and virulent disposition to injure; it is more dangerous than malevolence, because it is not only more completely concealed but it often instigates harmful acts: The malignity of his nature was shocking. 
Rancor is a lasting, corrosive, and implacable hatred and resentment.
—Antonyms 
benevolence
　
Whatever the fate of Neil LaBute's Yank remake of The Wicker Man—which Warner Bros. is releasing this Friday (without advance press screenings) —it's unlikely to generate the enduring passion and rancor inspired by the 1973 occult classic. 
Other British films, such as Peeping Tom, The Devils, Straw Dogs, and A Clockwork Orange, steeped in violence and sexual sadism, have been more controversial; Get Carter, [lionized] by the '90s lad fad, has similarly gained in retrospective glory. 
But The Wicker Man's genre-bending, thematic daring, and tortuous history have made it the U.K.'s definitive cult movie. Equally admired by witchcraft geeks and cineastes, though critically neglected, it has spawned two books, three documentaries, websites, and fan conventions.
detest
vehement, besides a sense of disdain
To detes[t a] combination of ignorance and arrogance.
abhor
a deep-rooted horror or sense of repugnance
Nature abhors [a] vacuum.
abominate
express repulsion toward something thought of as unworthy, unlucky
To abominate [treachery].
grudge
to [hold] a grudge against a former opponent. 
after he and Gillespie come to a [grudging] understanding of one another
El Mariachi is a [reminder] of the cinema's simpler pleasures, where bad guys carry guns and [grudges],
feud
blood feud
The two [tribes] feuded with each other for generations.
as do others involving a [sisterly] feud between Sylvia and Coco.
This is a reference to Eazy-E, Ice Cube's former N.W.A. band mate, with whom he was [feuding] at the time of the movie.
Detest

stupor
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D
–noun
1. suspension or great diminution of sensibility, as in disease or as caused by narcotics, intoxicants, etc.: He lay there in a drunken stupor.
2. mental torpor; apathy; stupefaction.
—Related forms
stuporous, adjective 
—Synonyms 
2. inertia, lethargy, daze.
　
Throughout the film, Keitel is almost constantly sniffing, smoking or injecting drugs he's stolen from police busts, plus some alcohol on the side and time-outs for sex. The cumulative effect is a far stronger anti-drug message than any lecture on screen could be. 
In his stupor, Keitel is investigating random murders, but his mind is on baseball playoffs.
dormant
suggest the quiescence, sleep but may be roused to action
a dormant [volcano]
inert
dead matter, with no inherent power, unable, heavy or hard to move
an inert [mass], inert from [hunger]
sluggish 
slowness, doesn not move readily or vigorously
a sluggish [stream] [brain] 
schlep 
with Dante schlepping [to] work at the Quick Stop in New Freakin' Jersey.
torpid
suspended physical powers, hibernate
[Snakes] are torpid in cold weather. 
But too often, the movie [sinks] into an [a]morphous state of emotional [torpor] 
Before long, pic falls into an ill-formed midsection marked by muddled action, abrupt transitions and a [lulling] [torpor].
Languid

vagaries
Y
[vuh-gair-ee, vey-guh-ree] 
D
–noun
1. an unpredictable or erratic action, occurrence, course, or instance: the vagaries of [weather]; the vagaries of the [economic] scene.
2. a whimsical, wild, or unusual idea, desire, or action.
—Synonyms 
2. caprice, whim, quirk, crotchet.
　
Certainly ''Bad Timing,'' which opens the ''British Film Now'' series (it will be shown at the Paramount Theater at 5 and 8 P.M. today, and will open at the Sutton tomorrow), has a great deal in common with Mr. Roeg's other films. Once again, he teams a fragilelooking man with a woman of exceptional abandon. 
Art Garfunkel and Theresa Russell, echoing Mr. Roeg's casting of David Bowie with Candy Clark, Mick Jagger with Anita Pallenberg, and Donald Sutherland with Julie Christie, play Americans who meet in Vienna and become involved in a sexually [explicit], but not particularly torrid affair. 
Though the title refers to the vagaries of their [relationship], it could just as easily denote the pattern of the story's exposition. Scrambled flashbacks help complicate this tale, which begins as a tepid romance and ends with a tepid crime. 
capricious 
unpredictable, arising from sudden whim
a capricious [administration] constantly and [in]explicably changing its signals; 
a capricious and astounding reversal of [position]. 
fickle
underlying perversity as a cause
once [lionized], now [rejected] by a fickle public.
inconstant
innate disposition to change
an inconstant [lover], flitting from affair to affair.
vacillating
lack of resolution of firmness
an [indecisive], vacillating [leader], apparently incapable of a sustained course of action.
erratic
She is a very erratic [tennis] player.
Our rowboat's [course] was erratic after we lost the [oars].
He's too [erratic] a writer and 
too [flaccid] a director 
to balance the [smirky]-dirty humor with the [schmaltzy] sensitive shit. 
whimsical 
whimsy 
pixilated
He blows up [cropped] arms, legs and [genitals] so that they’re heavily [pixilated] and almost look like Grand Master paintings.
Hypochondria

salacious
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D
–adjective
1. lustful or lecherous.
2. (of writings, pictures, etc.) obscene; grossly indecent.
—Synonyms 
1. lewd, wanton, lascivious, libidinous. 2. pornographic.
—Antonyms 
1. modest.
 　
Given Russell's frantic pacing, performances tend to get lost amid the savagery. Reed carries the film with an admirably restrained portrayal of the doomed priest. Redgrave, on screen only sporadically, is stunning as the salacious sister.
fornication
The Jew says all he wants is to be left alone to study his Torah, do a little business, fornicate with his oversexed wife, but it's not true.
Shut up, you fornicator. 
cuckold
the husband of an unfaithful wife
The most striking male performance comes from Eckhart, who gained considerable weight and [de]glamorized his look to play the [cuckolded] hubby.
Then there's Gina Gershon who struggles in the role of the dutiful, supportive girlfriend who's [being] cuckolded,
adulterate
to adulterate [food]
just the [pure], [un]adulterated expression of an American artist's highly original personality.
philanderer
lothario
a man who obsessively seduces and deceives women
and, of all people, the ageless, orange-hued [lothario] George Hamilton.
mash
Tim encourages Francis to pursue Margie, at one point even sending her a [mash] note and signing his friend's name.
grope
leer
a lascivious or sly look.
I can't concentrate with you leering [at] me.
"strong, heavy ass that looked perfect in blue jeans" comes off a bit [leering],
ogle 
Uncle George got a black eye for [ogling] a lady in the pub.
Henrik, Egerman's son by a previous marriage, is studying theology, but he is constantly being [ogled] by Petra, the maid. 
This round and[ voluptuous] little French miss is put on spectacular display and is rather brazenly [ogled] from every allowable point of view.
squint
to look with the eyes partly closed.
to look or glance obliquely or sidewise; look askance.
He squinted through the [tele]scope.
The baby squinted its eyes at the bright [lights] 
Ellen Kuras' DV lensing is often momentarily blinded by [glare], as if [squinting] along with protags not at all sure where they stand.
peek 
glance quickly or furtively, 
esp. through a small opening or from a concealed location
[Close] your eyes. Don't peek. I've got a surprise for you.
Harron's biopic opens with a [peek] at the innocent raunch of mid-'50s Times Square. 
Debauchery

perambulate
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D
–verb (used with object)
1. to walk through, 
about, 
or over; travel through; traverse.
2. to traverse in order to examine or inspect.
–verb (used without object)
3. to walk or travel about; stroll.
　
Sticking strictly to [elemental], M. Vadim, and Levy tell of a young lady in a town on the Riviera who is a perambulating peril to all males. She tempts them with her unrestrained gyrations. She joys in having them chase after her. Coincidentally, she finds it hard to resist them. "It's like an illness," she says.
loitering 
gallivant v.
Well he'd like us to think that he's writing a novel, but we all know he just goes out and gallivants with freshmen [women] trying to relive Jane.
trapes
traipes
As if we weren't concerned enough after her disturbing debut as Jenny in Kids; traipsing [across] town
stroll
Hurt, playing a cocky but lazy lawyer named Ned Racine, is strolling on a pier where an exhausted band is [listlessly] playing.
After dinner, they stroll [into] the drawing room, where we glimpse a woman's purse, filled with chicken feathers and rooster claws.
Languid

fecund
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D
–adjective
1. producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit, vegetation, etc., in abundance; prolific; fruitful: fecund parents; fecund farmland.
2. very productive or creative intellectually: the fecund years of the Italian Renaissance. 

　
At least as far as the movies go, the fecund late '60s are a gift that keeps on giving. As allusive as its title, Jean-Pierre Melville's all but unknown Army of Shadows, a French resistance saga made—and tepidly received—in 1969, emerges from the mists of time in a new 35mm restoration as a career-[capping] epic tragedy.
。桂冠詩人
。花朵
。葉綠素
Hemlock
。樹木
snag
Edward Norton in the role(s) of identical twins, had [hit] a buzz or release snag. 斷枝,剪枝
bough
The blossom came but the fruit withered and died on the bough. 大樹枝
acorn
It was no more than a piece of youthful bravado, but it was one of those acorns from which great oaks are destined to grow. Even then I went so far as to examine the family treem and prune it tojust the living members. 橡子,橡實
hemlock 
cedar
ficus
Is that my ficus? 熱帶榕屬植物
spruce
You are looking spruce. 雲杉
White fir, Douglas fir, silver tip spruce.
sequoias
I bet you told her all your trees wewe sequoias. (產於美國加州的) 紅杉
mahogany
It wasn't the biggest yacht in the world, but it had a fireplace in the library, and the bar was panelled in bleached mahogany. 桃花心木,紅木
coniferous 
turpentine
Go and buy me a turpentine.
sapling 
"Your saplings are taller than me"
burgeon
Let the Right One In follows the [burgeoning] relationship between Oskar,
poon
I mean, who here doesn’t want the heir apparent to Leonardo DiCaprio and, subsequently, and additionally, DiCaprio’s [poon] tractor beam, to succeed in this business?  (印度產) 胡桐樹
You set things up so you can play a little golf, you get a little poon, you smoke some good grass... and that's what life's about.
woodbine
All I had was a packet of woodbines. (開淡黃色花的) 一種忍冬屬植物,五葉地錦
deciduous
Name me three deciduous trees indigenous to the Northwest. 脫落性的,落葉性的
waddle
I will arise and go now, and tgo to Innisfree. A small cabin build there, of [clay] and [wattles] made. 枝條,籬笆條
poplar
I don't think we're supposed to get within, what, 10 feet... Property line's the poplar. 楊屬樹木,白楊
ebony
shillalah
When one went to school, the first thing one heard were the days of your glory, Truscott. Oh, dear, one day, apparently, you [debagged] the [chaplain], and hit the local [constable] over the head with an ebony shillelagh. 黑檀,烏木／(愛爾蘭) 橡樹棍
。蕨類
fern 
I found a piece of osmunda in Colbert's car. On the brake pedal. Osmunda. A fern root. 蕨類植物、羊齒植物
Beckett, what is that? That's a fern. That's right, this is a fern. What's that? That's a cactus. That's a cactus, that's right. And what is the plural of cactus, huh? Cacti.
Earth between my toes and a flower in my hair, that's what I was wearing when we lay among the ferns.
bracken
I thought I heard something, like someone running through the bracken. Another poaching ruffian! Come on!【植】歐洲蕨,蕨叢
spore
At the beginning of the film, as the alien [spores] rain down on earth, you see them presumably landing on the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco,
[Spores] rain forth, unseen, from outer space,
epiphyte  
Well, I'm partial to any of the epiphytics. 附生植物
tendril
even though special effects involving the pods and their [hairy] tendrils are brilliantly unsettling, 卷鬚、蔓
Neglected in poverty, they survive, black and white [entwined], in tough tendrils of friendship — which are tested when one of their group dies in a [roughhousing] accident.
moss
I spent a year with those moos.
fuchsia
Suddenly the lights are stripped of their garish [fuchsia] and purple gels, leaving the [scruffy] set, with its [mural] of the Titanic going under, washed in white light. 倒掛金鐘屬植物
catkin
Now, sometimes catkins are called lamb's tails. Don't you think they look rather like them? So lovely and tiny. 葇荑花序
bacillus
Dr. Noah's bacillus? Now, Jimmy, even you wouldn't release [germ] warfare.【微】芽孢桿菌
lemur
Bill, I can smell him on you. Benway marks out all those whom he has met like a lemur, pissing on a liana vine to mark his territory. You're a marked man, Bill. 藤本植物
brier
They were nearly home when a Maxim gun opened fire. Barnet's body landed on this wire that was as thick as briers. 野薔薇,荊棘,歐石南
bramble
Oh, please help. I'm stuck in the brambles! Tuck! 懸鉤子屬植物,有刺灌木,刺藤
creeper
Given a choice between the lives of his companions and the lives of Earth's last surviving firs and pines, oaks and elms, and creepers and cantaloupes, he decides for the growing things. 匍匐植物
。食用
。園藝 
Artichoke 
Fecund