Word: fusions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene is a melodramatic master stroke, a fusion of white heat of irony and violence, and for it Jules Dassin (Rififi, Never on Sunday), who both wrote and directed the film, deserves full credit. Unfortunately, Moviemaker Dassin must also bear most of the blame for the rest, which is mildly but consistently awful. Adapted crudely from La Loi, Roger Vailland's fine Prix Goncourt novel of 1957, Hot Wind is laden with too many big European names (Gina Lollobrigida, Marcello Mastroianni, Pierre Brasseur, Paolo Stoppa, in addition to Montand and Mercouri). When not glumly stumbling over each other...
...would like to point out that the method of spinal fusion and wearing of the body cast is not as frightening as your article would have it sound. I missed very little school, participated in the usual social activities, including dancing, of any seventh grader...
...ailments seem almost preferable to their cures. A case in point is scoliosis, an abnormal curvature of the spine that occurs in childhood. As seen from behind, the spine should appear straight; in scoliosis it has a C-shaped or S-shaped curve. Extreme cases of scoliosis often require fusion of the spinal vertebrae. For most cases the standard treatment is forcible straightening of the spine, with the patient encased for four to six months in a massive, immobilizing plaster cast. To some parents of scoliosis victims, this treatment seems so punishing that they cannot be persuaded to permit...
Looking back, most of his associates date his emergence as a bona fide liberal-and probably as a presidential aspirant-to the years 1955-56. His serious 1954 operation to correct a wartime back injury-double fusion of spinal discs, with complications from Addison's disease-brought Kennedy to the brink of death; last rites of the Catholic Church were pronounced. In the long months of convalescence, he had opportunity to contemplate his political fu ture. (Wife Jacqueline Kennedy rejects the theory that this was his moment of political truth: "That way you can sort...
...they are all prey to "the fallibility of the human memory, the infirmities of the human mind, the weakness of human understanding and recollection." And intelligent, articulate diarists are the very worst kind: they couple their love of the language with their imagination and usually produce "a fusion of fact and fancy." To illustrate his point, Frankfurter drew a bead on James K. Polk, a President who was neither articulate nor imaginative but rather, in Frankfurter's view, a "bookkeeper" and "a dull man." Said Frankfurter: "He wrote a reliable diary...