Word: dementia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civilization." In the paroxysm of Hitler's waning power in Europe, he finally found an external circumstance to match the horror of his own inner condition. Accordingly, in bringing to life some of the ghouls that feasted on the body of an age, he shows a private dementia reflected in the splintered mirror of a schizoid society...
Hour of the Wolf. Ingmar Bergman's best film in a long time poses some weighty questions and has the sense to treat them violently in stark and terrifying images reminiscent of Hitchcock (Bergman's favorite director). If you are interested in current discussions of artistic impotence, the dementia of Bergman's protagonist (Max von Sydow) becomes the film's focal point. I found myself more involved by his wife (Liv Ullman) who, in loving him, tries to share his madness but cannot ultimately follow...
Died. Wendell Corey, 54, character actor and political activist; of a liver ailment; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Corey's blue eyes could reflect the dementia of a paid killer (The Big Knife) or the dedication of a tough-talking psychiatrist (NBC-TV's The Eleventh Hour), and his career encompassed nearly 40 films and TV shows in 21 years. Offscreen, he was one of Hollywood's most ardent Republicans, campaigned tirelessly for Fellow Actor George Murphy's election to the Senate and was himself elected to the Santa Monica city council...
...crowd had at a score of shops along Blue Hill Avenue in Boston's Roxbury Negro district during three straight nights of riots and looting. After three tense summers in which it had escaped the disturbances that plagued many other major U.S. cities, Boston finally succumbed to ghetto dementia...
...trouble with this hallucinatory first novel is that Author Moreau i trying to be like Sartre, only smartre. His intense existentialism is closer to dementia, and the result is a raging stream of semiconsciousness in which real and imagined horrors swim by, indistinguishable and unreal. "You go through streets but you do not see the streets, you go through people but you do not see the people," muses Quinte, who doesn...