Word: canings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victim," a model who was to come to the victim's aid if there was no response, and two women observers boarded an Eighth Avenue express. The victim, wearing an Eisenhower jacket and old slacks, stood near a pole in the center of the coach. He carried a cane if he was playing an invalid; if feigning drunkenness, he smelled of liquor and carried a bottle tightly wrapped in a brown paper bag. After the train departed the station, the victim suddenly staggered, collapsed and lay on the floor...
Sticky Problem. "The frequency of help received by the victims was impressive," write the psychologists. "The victim with the cane received spontaneous help on 62 of the 65 trials. Even the drunk received help on 19 of 38 trials." In fact, some passengers were so solicitous in helping the victim out of the train, remaining with him at the station or insisting on finding him an ambulance, that getting on with the next trial became a sticky problem...
...Circus, may correct the imbalance. Refurbished with a new score and an opening song croaked personally by the 80-year-old director/ composer/ producer/star, the film is incontrovertible proof of Chaplin's protean ability to eliminate absolutely everything outside the confines of the screen. Armed with nothing but cane and bowler, the tramp sets out like Quixote with lance and armor. His enemy is the cruel owner of the big top; his love, the villain's misused stepdaughter (Merna Kennedy...