Word: morbids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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David (Keir Dullea) is a 17-year-old boy with a high IQ and an obsessive-compulsive neurosis. He lives in morbid horror of dirt, in insane ambition to stop time and so cheat death, in panic dread that someday someone may touch him-"because a touch can kill." Lisa (Janet Margolin) is a 15-year-old girl with soft brown eyes and schizophrenia. She is split into two well-defined personalities. As Lisa she is a silly four-year-old who talks all the time but only in a "word salad" seasoned with rhyme...
...Confederate cannonball that smashed Sickles' right leg helped to make U.S. medical history. After the leg was amputated, a Union medic showed Sickles a year-old circular that directed medical officers "diligently to collect, and -o forward to the office of the Surgeon General, all specimens of morbid anatomy, surgical or medical, which may be regarded as valuable...
...morbid romance progresses, there is no way to tell whether Miss Borges falls in love with Alcon or remains simply a cold fish. This is the type of question the story seems to pose, but Nilsson lamely answers it only at the end of the film and never creates more than the machanical semblance of a love affair, or of any clear personal relations...
...unhappy with the morbid sort of pride that says, "I am proud to accept poverty for my Lord." As far as it is possible, a minister should receive an adequate salary...
...players who a month ago talked of taking ads in the Hollywood Reporter to scold Marilyn for costing them their jobs in Something's Got to Give suddenly realized that the something was Marilyn. They joined bigger stars and gossip columnists in an orgy of self-incrimination-a morbid way of boasting that to have helped kill her was, after all, proof of having known her intimately. "In a way we're all guilty," Hedda Hopper concluded. "We built her up to the skies, we loved her, but left her lonely and afraid when she needed us most...