Word: bloodstream
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...UGLINESS of The Exorcist (directed by William Friedkin) is calculated for cheap thrills. It pounds at you mechanically with the punch of a tank. It soaks below the conscious level into the bloodstream and anesthetizes feeling. Senseless in its conception, emptied of anything to care about, the movie does its dirty work on the stomach and the nerves. And, down deeper, it can cast your world into a limbo of doubt...
...untidy life and death of Malcolm Lowry have provided one of those feverish legends that persist in the literary bloodstream. With good cause. Lowry's was a life that both offends and fascinates-which is to say it excites the voyeuristic instinct. There were his Faustian bouts with alcohol as some kind of sorcerer's abused magic potion. There were his Baudelairean rumblings at the back door to salvation. There was also some basic tight-vested Freudian neurosis and a not quite redeeming sense of irony...
...glance, they seem to be some kind of exotic aquatic life photographed against a background of seaweed. But the spherical creatures portrayed in the pictures taken by scientists from Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Rockefeller University swim not in the sea but in the human bloodstream. They are lymphocytes, cells that are essential parts of the immune system and protect the body against invasion by germs and other foreign matter. Magnified about 13,000 times by a scanning electron microscope, they reveal for the first time structural differences between the two kinds of lymphocytes...
They injected alcohol directly into Mrs. Stanek's bloodstream-to act as a muscle relaxant and suppress uterine contractions-and they left a bottle of vodka on her bedside table with instructions to drink three ounces a day. When Mrs. Stanek, who was later moved to Colorado General Hospital because of its high-risk nursery facilities, went into labor, she was only seven weeks ahead of her due date...
Somebody here knows how seductive movies are. He knows how their emotional immediacy can inject the message into your bloodstream before you have time to consider the issues raised. And this somebody is laying it extra heavy on the 'liberation' in the movie. It is as if he had just discovered dynamite in Ibsen's ending and blasted it off for real...