Word: catatonia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Medical School. It is not apathy or indifference to what the U.S. is doing to the Vietnamese and Laotians and Cambodians, or to what is happening to the Bengalis for that matter. Rather, we seem to be gripped by a deepening sense of impotence. Almost a kind of catatonia. For all that most of us are doing to end America's participation in the war, we might as well be dead...
...anonymous sniper, and a grisly, incoherent tale of urban warfare ensues. Doors are padlocked, windows are shuttered, rifles are broken out. A paranoid detective (Alan Arkin) tries to solve Patsy's murder -and 344 other unsolved killings -amid drumfire volleys of sniper fire. Alfred lapses into catatonia, reviving just in time to command a witless, meaningless shooting spree...
...friends, but Maria has never understood friendship, conversation, the normal amenities of social exchange." And later. The two in bed, he shouts at her, "Well go to sleep, cunt. Go to sleep. Die. Fucking vegetable." Fucking vegetable, he shouts at her in bed, little realizing that in her catatonia Maria is only holding a mirror up to the more frenetic stiffs surrounding...
...friends, but Maria has never understood friendship, conversation, the normal amenities of social exchange." And later. The two in bed, he shouts at her, "Well go to sleep, cunt. Go to sleep. Die. Fucking vegetable." Fucking vegetable, he shouts at her in bed, little realizing that in her catatonia Maria is only holding a mirror up to the more frenetic stiffs surrounding...