Word: catatonia
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...especially in Betts' dobro playing and the hambone finale featuring Butch Trucks and Dickie; the two bar trade offs between Dickie's slide and piano man Chuck Leavell on "Wasted Words;" Dickie's chording on both "Southbound" and "Ramblin Man;" Gregg's vocals alternating between wounded innocence and catatonia throughout...
...that moral and political catatonia of most liberals which caused state NAACP President Aaron Henry to maintain that Southern whites would never be free until blacks were...
...Maybe it's the altitude," Romy Schneider suggests, none too helpfully, to Alain Delon, who plays the assassin Jacson. He has certainly known strange fits of passion since his arrival in Mexico City to murder Trotsky (Richard Burton). Suffering from a kind of ambulatory catatonia, Delon lurches about, subjecting his paramour Romy to his sexual vagaries and incoherent political outbursts. Romy, who plays a young friend of Trotsky's, grows testy at times, but endures nevertheless. She knows nothing of Jacson's murderous plans, yet senses, perhaps, that he is meant for important things...
...audience dangling. In See No Evil, Scenarist Brian Clemens offers no motivations and precious few plot twists. Nor is his head-on harum-scarum approach improved by Richard Fleischer's blunt direction, which favors sudden cuts to broken corpses and sadistic closeups of a girl precipitously tumbling into catatonia. Manifestly, Fleischer is out for only one thing: to inspire sudden fear. That he does, but at the expense of taste. The two were not mutually exclusive in two previous Fleischer films of homicidal violence: Compulsion (the story of Leopold and Loeb) and The Boston Strangler (based on the confessions...
...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...