Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even find their minds drifting back to the original Cat People (1942), from which this picture is less adapted than knocked off. Perhaps the most sophisticated horror film of its decade, it begins by considering a condition that might have served Freud as a case study in sexual hysteria. A young woman named Irena believes that if she makes love she will turn into a leopard-whereupon a man falls obsessively, irresistibly in love with her. Thereafter, through the play of sound and shadow, Director Jacques Tourneur suggests that it might be a good idea to take...
...watch tree trunks smolder. Because the havoc is not total, the prospect of civil disorder may be great. Hospitals are intact, with doctors on duty and painkillers in stock. But from all over the city, 600,000 injured are begging or simply seizing the tiny supply of medical aid. Hysteria spreads as drivers crowd all three major highways leading from the 150 sq. mi. of ruins...
...almost supernatural force. In one of his celebrated early essays, The Hollow Miracle (1959), Steiner argued that just as speech can create, it can destroy; that the language of Luther and Goethe "was not innocent of the horrors of Nazism," that Hitler found in it "the latent hysteria, the confusion, the quality of hypnotic trance." He now gives that view a theological turn, an adaptation of the opening statement in St. John: "In the beginning was the Word . . . and the Word...
...member of the country's three-man ruling junta. "How could we hide 2,000 Cuban soldiers in a country this size?" Agriculture Minister Jaime Wheelock, who was in the U.S. for his own publicity offensive, called the Hughes briefing, a bit redundantly, a case of "excessive hysteria"; he noted that the airport expansion program was actually begun by Somoza at U.S. insistence. They justified the military buildup as necessary in the face of American belligerency. Said Bayardo Arce, a member of the Sandinista nine-man national directorate: "Your leaders are forcing us to take dramatic measures. We expect...
...single piano hammers in the background as the residents of "Steeltown, U.S.A." battle the manipulations of the inexorable, cigar-chomping "Mister Mister" (David Reiffel). Mister Mister owns the factories and the town newspaper and heads the union-busting Liberty Committee, his wife bribes the preacher to fan war hysteria so steel prices will stay high, while his henchman track down dirt on the heroic labor-organizers who are trying to bring about a social revolution. Their speeches are not just background color thrown it to give characters an excuse for passionate devotion or to propel a romantic plot Rather they...