Word: overwhelming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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KUBRICK'S FAVORITE THEME of man seeking his own death weaves its way subtly through this nasty plot. Jack Torrance is a man who has always allowed his drinking and his temper to overwhelm his reason, a man who sets his own roadblocks and then tries to run them in a battered Volkswagen. He stands as a crazy metaphor for the world in Kubrick's eyes: the rational progress we make always seems to be a step behind the torture we inflict on the earth and the nuclear apocalypse we plan for. In the end, we will be limping after...
...Wright's mercurial Mayor leads the American Rep actors in their flight from traditional-conversational exchange, alternating with precise control between an entirely non-verbal, vacuous moan and a galloping torrent of words tripping over each other in their eagerness to overwhelm the listener. He shouts "I'm not guilty" like an incantation to dispel the ills the world flings at him; his colleagues ponder their response to the supposed inspector-general's arrival with the cacophonous murmur of an elderly Orthodox Jewish congregation praying at different speeds. Richard Grusin's nasal, rotund Director of Welfare Institutions and Eric Elice...
...main target was the rescue plan. Some critics charge that it was too lean and spare, with far too few men and aircraft to overwhelm the militants holding the embassy in crowded Tehran, pick up the hostages and escape safely. On the other hand, other critics argue that the plan was too sophisticated and complex, with too many staging points and too many chances for detection before the assault on the embassy...
...perseverance and courage. Born in the slums of Philadeplphia. Rivers found himself having to fight just to survive. "Just to defend yourself you had to be into an aggressive violence trip." After leaving the "City of Brotherly Love" because the violence and intensity of his surroundings were beginning to overwhelm him. Rivers went to New Haven where Black at Yale began...
...Hanover, Mass.: "The people we see would ordinarily be able to cope, but with inflation, they can't cope now. It is just too much." Adds Cleveland Psychotherapist Jack Wiggins: "We're seeing a cumulative effect. When financial problems are added to internal problems, they tend to overwhelm people." St. Louis Psychologist Norman Matulef reports that patients are now more pessimistic, worried about their own competence and obsessed with money. "Inflation seems to connect more directly with personal dynamics," he says. "It's bad enough for those in the 'normal neurotic' range. For those with...