Word: feverishness
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Moving at a leisurely pace that makes its sensationalism even more feverish, the plot of So Dark the Night lets young love struggle against middle-aged wealth, throws in a couple of violent murders, winds up in a fanfare of abnormal psychology. It just goes to show that thoughtful direction and handsome camera work can lift a mediocre movie a long way above its humble beginnings...
Zweig has two explanations for the vast productivity of the squat, ugly writer who became the acknowledged master of the 19th Century realistic novel. One was Balzac's feverish lust for power. "If the opportunity had offered, Balzac might equally well have become a businessman or a slave-dealer, a speculator in real estate or a banker. It was mere chance that directed his genius into the channel of literature...
Undulant fever (brucellosis) is caused by bacteria transmitted to human beings by infected cows, goats or pigs, either by contact or in unpasteurized milk or cheese. Hence it is most common in rural areas. Anyone who feels weak, tired, feverish and generally rotten should be suspected of having the disease-but detection is tough. Reason: the symptoms resemble those of many other common diseases, including malaria, tuberculosis, psychoneurosis. Undulant fever seldom kills, but it may keep its victims wretched...
...experience. Italian diplomats and newsmen say: take it with salt, especially his cloying, new-found love of suffering humanity, his suspiciously detailed and too melodramatic recital of fast-moving events. But whatever their worth as history, these tenuously connected yarns have the quality of horrible legends recited against the feverish background of Europe's moral decay...
...Dark Mirror (Universal-International) begins with a shadow-menaced shot of a corpse, then plunges headlong into a feverish chase after a knife-wielding paranoiac killer. Made with considerable style, it is a more diverting whodunit than most of the current crop of movies that mix homicide with psychiatry. Thanks to some suave legerdemain in its direction and playing, it even gives the impression of being a better movie than...