Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slightly bemused assault on the indignities that capitalism inflicts on the worker, as well as a few other indignities that the worker turns against the bosses. The movie is angry but wry about it, indignant without being incendiary. It is less like a Molotov cocktail, say, than a water balloon...
...which fuse with one's own societal paranoia. There are a whole list of things which you may never do again after seeing M and a few of them are: whistle the Peer Gynt Suite, allow a kid to walk to school without an armed guard, see a floating balloon and not wonder where its owner is. If you only think of Peter Lorre as the whining, pop-eyed comic figure of a million parodies, try this on for size, for his performance in M is brilliant in its fullness, empathy and inseparability from the society he moves in. Hardly...
This movie asks the question: "Why do you suppose we pick the people we pick to love?" A character actually comes out and says that-rhetorically, to be sure, but without shame. As the question hangs in the air, like a cartoon balloon chiseled out of concrete, it raises another, more interesting point: Why do people make movies that ask questions like this...
Doctors all too often perform open-heart surgery that is technically perfect only to have the patient die soon after the operation, because his previously weakened heart cannot bear the added burden of surgical shock. To ease the load on ailing hearts, doctors have for several years used implantable balloon pumps (TIME, Aug. 23, 1971) and other devices that are designed to be removed surgically after recovery. A system developed at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Medical Center carries this heart-assist technology a significant step forward. Their pump not only provides a postoperative boost but can be connected again...
...enormous waxy-faced man carooms through the front of the crowd. He is rounder and crazier than helium balloon, and he's spreading false information about the march's route. Losing his temper a black man shoves his hand into the fat man face, crumpling a leaflet into his mouth. Under a bare tree, two securitymen twist the black to the ground. He's screaming, "I won't let any motherfucking son-of-a-bitch stand in our way." With cries of "police agent," and "white racist pig" the crowd tries to bounce the fat man into Park Drive where...