Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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KING AND COUNTRY. Director Joseph Losey (The Servant) takes an excruciating look at a World War I deserter (Tom Courtenay again) who is doomed to die and at the anguished officer (Dirk Bogarde) who is doomed to defend...
...DIE IN MADRID. With John Gielgud and Irene Worth among the narrators, French Producer-Director Frederic Rossif splices vintage newsreels into a masterful elegy for the victims of Spain's scarring civil...
...John J. Bonica, drew attention to another vital role of the anesthesiologist-where surgery is not involved or at least not scheduled. "Suppose," he said, "a patient comes in with barbiturate poisoning. All his automatic nervous system reactions, including those of his breathing center, are depressed. He may die because he is not getting enough oxygen, or he may be getting enough to keep him alive but so little as to leave him with a damaged brain. Or the respiratory depression may damage his lungs so that pneumonia and death follow. The anesthesiologist goes to work with the same equipment...
...back-anything he can buy low and sell high through corrupt Japanese guards who have connections in Singapore's black market. While senior officers mope around in rags, King wears spruce khaki laundered by hired flunkies. Those who serve him may hate him, but they seldom die of malnutrition; and King measures out his hoarded foodstuffs so shrewdly that the odor of two pan-fried eggs can provoke a moral crisis. Actor George Segal makes King a thoroughgoing conman-all smiles and treachery, eyes darting at every man he meets, ferreting out the Achilles' heel in order...
...DIE IN MADRID. Such narrators as John Gielgud and Irene Worth add eloquent words to rare newsreel footage assembled by French Producer-Director Frédéric Rossif, who reshapes Spain's savage civil war of 1936-1939 into a powerful work...