Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles. As they approached San Jose, the officer suddenly became violent, struck his companion over the head. Then he drove into a tree. Mrs. McEnroe was picked up by a truck. Police investigating the smash-up found swarthy, curly-headed Lieut. French dead with a bullet through his brain, apparently by his own hand. Then Mrs. McEnroe, told a strange story. She said the officer was one-eighth Negro, had passed for white for 14 years in the Army, had led white troops in France. Shocked and amazed at the masquerade were his brother officers and the War Department...
...makes the transitions less of a tour de force. The face of the handsome young British sawbones becomes by barely perceptible degrees of trick photography the visage of a sabre-toothed baboon with pig eyes and a tassel of primeval hair. The story?most macabre product of the queer brain of Robert Louis Stevenson, sometimes politely sentimental, sometimes insanely, savagely gloomy? goes much as usual, with Hollywood variations. Mr. Hyde pursues a music hall girl (Miriam Hopkins) and brutally mistreats her while Dr. Jekyll makes intermittent and respectable love to the daughter (Rose Hobart) of a bigwig. Dr. Jekyll promises...
There is where the boy, having survived the puncture of his heart, ran his second greatest risk. One branch of the aorta goes to the head and brain. The other branch goes to the trunk and limbs. Had the bullet been carried by the flowing blood and pulsing artery up toward the brain, it would quickly have plugged some small bore artery, caused quick death. Instead, the pellet turned downward, worked into the left iliac artery, then the left femoral. Surgeons last week left it there, hoping it would work further down the leg where its removal would be less...
...that the impression which he gets of me is obtained through a two-dimensional image on the retinas of his eyes; that he sees me twice over, once in each eye; that he sees me upside down, and that what the left eye sees the righthand side of his brain interprets...
Somewhere in Germany, in the year 1919, three young painters and a camera-man hatched an idea for a new film. They wanted to use that impersonal and reportorial tool, the camera, to tell a tale from a madman's brain and show the world through a mad-man's eyes. They wanted to becloud the lens, to forsake realism to gain artistic reality. In 1920 this film was finished, and "Dr. Caligari" made his crooked bow to Europe. In those days nothing like it had been seen. Devotees of the arts went to marvel, and there was talk...