Word: hydrophobia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...complaints in which (extract of hemp) has been specifically recommended are neuralgia, gout, rheumatism, tetanus, hydrophobia, epidemic cholera, convulsions, chorea, hysteria, mental depression, delirium tremens, insanity, and uterine hemorrhage...
Rollerball. This was made in the Nixon Era, and it shows. The word to describe this movie is hydrophobia; as Lyman Bostock, the second-leading hitter in the American League said, this film says everything there is to say about violence in American sports. James Caan is macho-competent, as usual, and the sets are something--the crowd scenes for this amalgamation of roller derby and first degree assault were filmed in the Olympic Stadium in Munich. In a way, it's a shame--in the hands of a William Friedkin, this could have been a 90-minute reminder that...