Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bode unfolded a grisly story. Obrawalde was a large, handsome sanatorium surrounded by parks, and relatives were told how lucky their demented loved ones were to be so close to nature. But when patients arrived, a male nurse examined them, then assigned the strong ones to "Department 19," which meant the forced-labor camp. The weak ones went to "Department 20," the death room. "I was first told about the killings," testified Obrawalde's dentist, "by a group of children who had watched through the keyhole...
...refused, and did not realize the gravity of their offense. "When Frau Doktor told me to give a patient five grams of luminal," explained Luise Erdmann, 63, "I naturally assumed there had been a mistake, and gave the normal dose of .5 gram." When she learned Frau Doktor had meant what she said, Luise went to the head physician and was told that it was all done on orders from above. "If it hadn't been legal," she added, "wouldn't the police have come...
...results were more than a surprise victory for Frei. They meant a change in the whole political map of Chile. After last September's presidential elections, the country's radicals, conservatives and liberals claimed that only their support put Frei over the top as President. Last week Frei exploded that myth once and for all, cutting their combined legislative seats from...
...umbilical cord. But his real specialty is crying on his own shoulder; he claims more symptoms than there are diseases. Matthau grouses that his fidgety roommate is "the only man in the world with clenched hair." A clenched-jaw finale finds the pair admitting that they are not meant for each other, though each may have learned just enough about himself to mend his broken marriage...
...this comes from a lack of perspective on Williams' part. Directing himself, he must not have seen what wasn't working. His own performance is suitably ironic, suitably loud. But he never builds to any turning point. It is easy to miss some of his crucial lines. If Williams meant Danton to seem to be playing a role, he almost succeeded. But he never gives us a patch of sincerity to contrast the act with. Even in the lovely prison soliloquy, Danton's character remains ambiguous...