Spirit of the Dead Watching her fear. Mathews says it is too simple to attribute Tehura's terror to her belief in spirits and irrational fear of the dark; she says, following Sweetman, that Gauguin's sexual predilections should not be ignored when trying to understand the work. Rather, she suggests the girl's fear was a response to Gauguin's aggressive behavior, consistent with his known battering (so says Mathews) of his wife Mette, the submissive fear in her eyes his erotic reward. Stephen F. Eisenman, professor of Art History at Northwestern University, suggests the painting and its narrative is "a veritable encyclopaedia of colonial racism and misogyny".
The Fear of Wages a parody of a contemporary film, The Wages of Fear (1953). Wallace Greenslade initially announces that title as ""Le Salaire de la peur", meaning "The Wages of Fear", or in English...". Sellers then announces, as Willium ("Mate"), "The Fear of Wages! Ohhh!". The plot is loosely based on the plot of the film, "The Wages of Fear"; transporting nitroglycerin by trucks. Burma, 6th of March, 1956: Colonel Neddie Seagoon of the 4th Armoured Thunderboxes reads a telegram that Major Bloodnok failed to show him in 1945 because he thought it was a practical joke. The telegram states that World War