Word: girls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thought that he was alone, but when he looked up he noticed that a girl had drawn near him. Summer School type, he mused. Ever seeking the eternal adventure, they, like the girl blocking his view, had come to bother...
With Open Eyes. Marmer began his experiments by hypnotizing a 13-year-old boy, found that he withstood the rigors of a heart operation (to enlarge a pulmonary valve narrowed at its base), and recovered without complaining of pain. Then Marmer moved on to a more difficult case: a girl of 14 who had the disadvantage of being deaf, so that a hearing aid had to be used to communicate with her. After several trial runs, he hypnotized her on the morning of the operation, then gave her light chemical anesthesia. When her heart and lungs had been bypassed, their...
...five-hour operation, Marmer told the girl to wake up. She did, promptly asking: "Is everything O.K.? Can I have a drink? I'm so thirsty!" The technique, Marmer suggested, should be limited to patients aged seven to 14 because they are the most suggestible subjects, with their "heightened powers of imagination and their ability to play a role or create a fantasy...
...Cromwell deserves much credit for the acting. As the mother, Betty Lou Holland is painfully good. And Actress Stanley triumphs over heavy odds. She is a full-bodied woman who shows every one of her 33 years, and never for an instant looks anything like a 16-year-old girl or a sensuous cinemama; but her playing is so intense that the sense of her physical presence seems to dissolve in the shimmer of creation, and the spectator again and again forgets to believe his eyes...
...kind of story that the regime must find irritatingly lacking in proletarian joy. The young workmen in The Most Sacred Words of Our Life are indifferent to their jobs, cynical and joyless. The young hero is lyrically awakened by a beautiful love affair with a tender and passionate girl. He leaves her in the morning to rush to work, and discovers that three of his fellow workmen have had the same girl, that she has spoken to them the identical, sacred words of endearment. It is a simple and devastating story in which the finest feelings of youth are turned...