Word: invalidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Across the kitchen table, almost out of reach, is a large glass of milk that the girl can hardly hold. Upstairs, there is an old woman (Theresa Giehse), an invalid who tells the girl. "You have a very vivid imagination." After a while the old woman dies, but is brought back to life by a young man (Joe Dallesandro) who holds a mirror in front of her face. Observing all this, the young girl mentions in passing that "all is illusion...
...Freudian symbolism proliferates. The war between the sexes suggests the girl's adolescent turmoil over her own sexual identity. One notes-one can hardly avoid-the preponderance of traditional Freudian sexual metaphors: snakes, clocks, the horn of the unicorn. Add to this the curdled maternalism of the old invalid and the nearly unreachable sustenance of that outsize glass of milk, and Black Moon seems like a long case study...
BRITAIN, the industrial world's perennial postwar invalid, continues to languish. Output this year will be a bit below that of 1974, and Common Market experts predict zero growth next year as well. Meanwhile, exports are sluggish and living standards are dropping. Unemployment has passed the politically sensitive level of a million workers and could hit 1.5 million this winter. Prime Minister Wilson's Labor Government can do little to stimulate the economy because inflation, despite price controls, is already roaring along at an annual rate of 27.9%, highest in any major nation...
...Teamsters and the UFW in a near draw among those workers--a sizable majority--who favor union representation. The UFW leadership claims its share of the vote has been reduced by Teamster and grower intimidation, and by the apparent reluctance of state officials to safeguard workers' rights and reject invalid Teamster ballots...
...often had trouble hearing because of his growing deafness. "You really had to roar at him," said a luncheon companion, "and he had some trouble with our English accents." Wallace's energy did not seem to slacken, but there was no disguising the fact that he is an invalid. Noted the Daily Telegraph: "It was a small, strained, pathetically helpless figure that was helped from car to wheelchair and back...