Word: asylums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Later, an attack by Marvin's men on Nazis holed up in a Belgian insane asylum recalls the charming ballet of war in King of Hearts. Fuller's use of music and symbols is again heavy-handed and the sequence ends with a madman firing a machine gun with berserk glee and shouting, "I am sane, I am sane," but poetic camera movement and a sense of humor, even about death, make the scene more than just another "Who's-really-insane?" routine...
Later, an attack by Marvin's men on Nazis holed up in a Belgian insane asylum recalls the charming ballet of war in King of Hearts. Fuller's use of music and symbols is again heavy-handed and the sequence ends with a madman firing a machine gun with berserk glee and shouting, "I am sane, I am sane," but poetic camera movement and a sense of humor, even about death, make the scene more than just another "Who's-really-insane?" routine...
...myself that, like James Stewart in Rear Window, I am unseen); but there's something frightening about seeing your own harmless perversions enthusiastically endorsed by hundreds of people. Except these people didn't seem to want to question their responses. They seemed like the leering, drooling maniacs in the asylum scene of Brian Depalma's Dressed to Kill, applauding the strangulation and partial stripping of a nurse. The image is a sardonic joke and undoubtedly meant to mirror the audience, but thousands of humorless nurses and women are picketing the film across the country, claiming it presents violence against women...
...Political asylum allows Walter to stay," says INS Spokesman Verne Jervis. "That's all it does. It does not require him to stay or deal with the issue of custody." Chicago Juvenile Court Judge Joseph Mooney scheduled a hearing this week to determine whether Walter will be placed in the custody of one of his two U.S. aunts or be returned to his father. Although U.S. custody law has traditionally sought to avoid splitting up families under almost any circumstances, Walter's attorney will argue that his future would be seriously jeopardized by being forced to return...
...school, a bicycle I fixed myself. Here is better than my country. I would rather never see my parents than leave Chicago." With that, a seemingly routine runaway case became an international issue. With rare speed, the Immigration and Naturalization Service approved young Walter's petition for "political asylum," a claim made possible by a recent change in the immigration laws that allows "a person," no age specified, to seek such refuge; before, a parent or guardian had to sign a request for asylum by a minor...