Word: contagion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...yesterday "it was a dandy move in the right direction." He pointed out, however, that each department has wide discretionary powers and that all changes must originate with each department. The changes do not indicate any trend or general change, though he felt they might develop into a "reforming contagion...
Whodunit? The hero himself? The American? The Organization? Does the Organization actually exist? Is it just a paranoid delusion? Is the film a study of psychic contagion? an attack on the creeping totalitarianism of modern life? an intricate exercise in confusion? Director Rivette has suggested the explanation he prefers. "My picture is the adventure of a theory-in turn proposed, set aside, revived, distorted, exhausted. The end cancels the original intention. Nothing has really taken place but the scenes themselves." How true...
...quickly. Doctors do rate their occasional rest. But are they taking time off too often, even between vacations? "It has become hazardous to develop a serious illness over a weekend or on a holiday, or even at night;" declared Manhattan's Dr. Milton Helpern last week. "The contagion of the medical day terminating at 4 or 5 o'clock in the afternoon in clinics seems to have infected some of the medical profession in private practice...
...rogues' gallery of stupid, brutal and arrogant attendants. In self-defense the hero tries to decide who he is and what made him that way. A succession of sometimes awkward flashbacks shows a dismal flat in a dismal slum, a father dying of some unspeakable capitalist contagion, a mother playing around with her "fancy man," a burglary of no more importance than a raid on the cookie jar, a relentless agent of the law who brings the hero to what the picture plainly does not think is justice. In the end, given the chance to win his freedom...
...Grinned Colonel Boumedienne: "That won't make the Americans happy." Contagious Guns. While the tribesmen roasted an entire sheep on a spit for lunch, Algerian horsemen charged back and forth on the plain below, rising in their saddles to fire their flintlocks in unison at the sky. The contagion spread to the F.L.N. troops on the ridges and crests. and for 20 minutes gunshots echoed in the hills. Moslem children burst into tears and some of the guests looked nervously toward the border, fearing the French might respond by firing in earnest. But French guns remained silent...