In between the two judo films Kurosawa was assigned to "The Most Beautiful," a blunt propaganda movie that begins with a written exhortation to the audience to "attack and destroy the enemy".
High points include six beautiful but blunt-spoken works in crude oil on pasteboard and paper that Dorothea Rockburne made in 1970.
She was 80. Acting opposite male stars like Marlon Brando, George Raft, James Garner and John Wayne, she portrayed a succession of strong, but seldom admirable characters: she was the blunt, beautiful dame with the bedroom eyes who was rotten to the core and didn't care who knew it.
In fact, Chapter 3 of his book is titled, "Blunt is Beautiful — Stay True to You".
He could eviscerate his rivals – and his friends – with put-downs that were as beautiful as they were blunt.
"Yet if you like horror films, the new 'Cat People' is a good deal of fun -- beautiful, baroque, erotic and blunt," Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times.
And — did my eyes deceive me — I thought I saw a hint of humanness, in the whiff of desire making its way toward the young, blunt and beautiful Israeli agent.
Blunt and beautiful combine in "The Strafing," an image in which bursting shells illuminate a ghostly expanse of no man's land and trenches; it may remind Americans of some of Marsden Hartley's muscular romantic landscapes of the 1930's.
Her words are blunt and beautiful, bringing to life timely political issues with a sense of urgency.
Her third collection, "The Bad Wife Handbook" (Wesleyan University Press: 114 pp., $22.95), is blunt and beautiful, an evocation of both the rigors of marriage and the solaces and treachery of love.
