Word: bleeds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Berlin will long remember a young East German named Peter Fechter who last summer tried to escape across the Wall and was shot down by the Red border cops. Wounded, he was left to bleed to death by the Communists, while U.S. soldiers, under strict instructions to avoid "incidents," were not allowed to cross a few feet into East Berlin and help the dying man. When a wave of disgust swept Germany, the Allies responded by a feeble gesture: they stationed an ambulance at Checkpoint Charlie in the U.S. sector to pick up any future wounded fugitive and take...
...ludicrous nature of theatrical conventions," but even in these terms "The Two-Headed Baby" is inexcusable. The dramatic conflict, it seems, is the parents' attempt to decide which head should be cut off to make their offspring normal. Granted this, is it then pardonable to have the unfortunate child bleed to death in rather gory detail once the decision is made? How, indeed, does Mr. Andrews "expose the ludicrous nature of theatrical conventions" by directing the actress playing the mother to toss the severed head into the audience as she says "Upsy-daisy" and the rhythm band breaks into "America...
...Love's face is beet-red and scarred with acne, and she has to shave daily. She has muscles like a male athlete's. Doctors warn that because Mrs. Love has a tendency to bleed heavily, she cannot risk a cut or undergo ordinary surgery. A fortnight ago. a jury awarded her $334,046 in damages from Dr. Wolf and Parke. Davis & Co., the drug's manufacturers. Her case, the first of its type to go to a jury, dramatized what are laconically called the "side effects" of many valuable drugs, and the problems of balancing...
...Elsa Martinelli, Antonella Lualdi, Anna Maria Ferrero, Mylene Demongeot, Rosanna Schiaffino) flee through the city in a frantic chase sequence, with nothing after them except howling boredom. They start a fight, steal some money, drive somewhere, wreck a bar, help some urchins steal an airplane wing for scrap, impulsively bleed for a blood bank. Eventually the loafer who winds up with the money bribes a headwaiter to open an expensive restaurant after quitting time, and grandly blows a casual acquaintance to a feast...
...addition to the techniques already described, Leacock enlarges the limits of color in photography in Eddie. At the dramatic peak, the day of the last race, the sunrise is done in color, and the small red accents of morning light seem to bleed across the screen as the movie changes from black-and-white to color. After Eddie loses the race, the color distorts the world into a fauvist painting, wild and brutally disorganized. For the final moments of disillusionment, Leacock switches back to black-and-white...