Word: inners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atherosclerosis, the inner walls of the arteries become clogged with fatty material. Part of this is cholesterol, a white, soapy-feeling substance (actually an alcohol) found in all animal fats, nerve tissues and egg yolk. Some doctors insisted that the cholesterol was the villain: there must be too much of it in the patient's blood. If it were cut out of the diet, the hardening of the arteries would at least be arrested...
Other illustrations in the book show that some men acquire ulcers largely as a result of inner and outward conflicts-e.g., the dissonant (neurotic) personality. The man whose ulcers are thrust upon him may be driven by the sharp pressure of outside events, such as a fall in the family fortunes...
Joan's "inner life" offered more opportunity for soliloquy in her cell than for dramatic movement. The limply worded libretto, by Queens College Music Professor Joseph Machlis, was not only static but too often banal. And the music, well-made but often weak where it needed strength, was more effective at setting moods than delivering powerful operatic punches...
...French. "In the major plot configuration of French films, human wishes are opposed by the nature of life itself. The main issue is not one of inner or outer conflicts in which we may win or lose, be virtuous or get penalized. It is a contest in which we all lose in the end, and the problem is to learn to accept it. There are inevitable love disappointments, the world is not arranged to collaborate with our wishes, people grow older, lovers become fathers, the old must give way to the young, and eventually everyone dies ... It is in keeping...
...what is hailed as her first "adult" movie role, 18-year-old Elizabeth Taylor reveals several outstanding attributes of a beautiful woman, but few of an actress. Robert Taylor indicates inner turmoil by staring raptly off into space. Good & evil are contrasted when the two of them come upon a rabbit in a trap: Elizabeth weeps and Robert can't understand why. "It's only a rabbit," he says. Despite expert photography and the best of intentions, the film Conspirator, pale shadow of a good novel, never comes to grips with its subject, ends as neither fish, fowl...