Word: medea
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JULY No village or city is safe during seven days of rampage. In 11 massacres in Algiers and the countryside, 315 die: 51 in Algiers and Medea, 44 in Ksar al Boukhari, an additional 21 in Algiers, 47 in Blida, 38 more in Blida, 44 in Larba, 70 in suburbs just outside Algiers...
...capacity for moral reflection. But in the movie the tormented demigod becomes "Herc," an ultra-buff teenage superstar who adores "Meg" and addresses the Great Goddess Hera as "Mom." Maybe Disney didn't realize that Socrates was forced to drink hemlock for impieties far milder than that. What next? Medea, who kills her own sons after Jason jilts her, as a perky homecoming queen who struggles with low self-esteem...
...Sutton, Pollak, a former editor for the Nation, met Dr. B. The writer's younger brother Stephen spent five years at the Orthogenic School before his accidental death in 1948. Meeting some 20 years later, Bettelheim loftily informed Pollak that his father had been an ineffective "schlemiel," that his Medea-like mother was wholly to blame for Stephen's emotional ills and, quite falsely, that the brother had committed suicide. No wonder Pollak left that encounter mentally comparing Bettelheim to "the evil Doctor Sivana, arch-nemesis of Captain Marvel...
DIED. MARIA CASARES, 74, grande dame of the French theater; of undisclosed causes; in La Vergne, France. A commanding presence, Casares took on nearly every classic female stage role, from Lady Macbeth to Medea--and played King Lear to boot. Her films include Les Enfants du Paradis, Orphee and La Lectrice...
...SCARIEST EYES IN movies. They can radiate pain or anger with the immediacy of a lightning flash and the intensity of a witch's curse. Angela Bassett should be cast as Medusa or Medea, but because she is a movie star, she plays righteous cops and sanctified wives. She ought to be in terrific films; instead she appears in mediocre ones, where she stands out like Callas singing Feelings and shines like her own amazing, reproachful eyes...