Based on the French movie " Le Pere Noel Est Une Ordure, " the story is about three lonely characters-- Philip ( Martin ), Catherine ( Rita Wilson ) and the widowed Mrs . Munchnik ( Madeline Kahn )-- who run a shoe-string, suicide-prevention clinic off the boardwalk in Venice, Calif.
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They were later in several films directed by Jean-Marie Poire, among them a wacky Christmas tale called " Le Pere Noel Est une Ordure, " which became a cult movie and is still widely viewed on video . ( It was also the inspiration for Nora Ephron's dreadful comedy last year, " Mixed Nuts . ")
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Dyer's pessimistic view of the world is stressed by his view of it as a " dunghill " attracting flies : " I saw the Flies on this Dunghil Earth, and then considered who their Lord might be . " Ironically the occultist Dyer compares the rationalistic members of the Royal Society with flies : " The Company buzzed like Flies above Ordure ".
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Directed by Nora Ephron; written by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron, based on the French film " Le Pere Noel Est une Ordure "; director of photography, Sven Nykvist; edited by Robert Reitano; music by George Fenton; production designer, Bill Groom; produced by Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas and Joseph Hartwick; released by Tri-Star Pictures.
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Trevor-Roper wrote that the mind of Hitler was " a terrible phenomenon, imposing indeed in its granite harshness and yet infinitely squalid in in its miscellaneous cumber, like some huge barbarian monolith; the expression of giant strength and savage genius; surrounded by a festering heap of refuse, old tins and vermin, ashes and eggshells and ordure, the intellectual detritus of centuries ".
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The ordure and other evacuations of the sick, were allowed to remain in the most offensive state imaginable . . . It was, in fact, a great human slaughter-house . " On September 15, Peter Helm, a barrel maker, and Stephen Girard, a merchant and shipowner born in France, volunteered to personally manage the hospital and represent the Mayor's Committee.
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The traditional / folkish and acoustic elements, including Audrey Sylvain's fragile vocals, are pitted against the more modern aspects of " L'Ordure ?l'�tat Pur ", an album packed with samples of urban violence culled from French TV news reports, ambulance sirens, riots, guns being cocked and shots being fired, and BDSM performed over Eurodance beats, displayed on long, drawn out cinematic songs.
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Al-Hamdani took note of the city's cleanliness, saying " The least dwelling there has a well or two, a garden and long cesspits separate from each other, empty of ordure, without smell or evil odors, because of the hard concrete ( adobe and Cob probably ) and fine pastureland and clean places to walk . " Later in the 10th-century, the Persian geographer Ibn Rustah wrote of Sana'a " It is the city of Yemen there not being found . . . a city greater, more populous or more prosperous, of nobler origin or more delicious food than it ."
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John Lloyd gave a largely positive review in the " Financial Times ", writing that " What is revealed here, in painful, careful detail, is a journalism that held power in contempt and, together with power, held in contempt people both famed and obscure, dominant and meek, " and that Davies in " his exhumation of this trove of journalistic ordure, done a colossal service to Britain s democracy . " Lloyd ends his review by describing " Hack Attack " as " the book of a very bold reporter about a passage of arms that he won, to our great benefit ."
