Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...episode from France, directed by François (Jules and Jim) Truffaut, makes the other three look sick sick sick. It is cruel, touching, funny. It is true to life at an age when life is true to art. It is Gallic Salinger, the case history of a growing pain...
...teacher of science at Olinger High. Peter, his son, narrates. Metaphorically, Caldwell appears as the centaur Chiron, a tutor of heroes, who in mythology was distinguished from other rapacious, lecherous Centaurs by his kindness and wisdom. Chiron was erroneously wounded by a poisoned arrow, and, unable to bear the pain, he longed for death. He prayed that he might pass on his immortality to Prometheus, and that his death would be accepted in atonement for Prometheus's sin, the presentation of divine fire to man. Zeus answered his prayer, and placed Chiron among the stars as the constellation Sagittarius...
...Rights of Man," to serve on Captain Vere's man-of-war, every attempt is made to set the scene for his tragic confrontation with society. Budd cries out, "Good-bye, 'Rights of Man,'" and the second lieutenant angrily but too obviously misinterprets the ambiguity. With ever more pain-staking care, the discontent of the "Avenger's" crew is endlessly thrust before the audience. Master-at-arms Claggart is not yet allowed to be more than a puppet of the director...
...women's committee now has 1,500 members, busies itself with sternly taught courses in music appreciation, then goes out to round up contributions to fill in the orchestra's immense deficit. The musicians, astonished at being celebrities, have largely resigned themselves to the occasional pain of Szell's whip; 67 of them now own homes in Cleveland, butchers wave to them at the supermarket, and, as one says, "even the bank knows you have roots if you're in the orchestra...
...Gassman and accomplice sit at separate tables in a swell restaurant. Suddenly the accomplice doubles up and cries out as if in abdominal pain. The manager, alarmed and embarrassed, hurries him into the kitchen. The crook moans louder and curses the cook for poisoning him. At that point, Gassman strides into the kitchen and declares: "I am a doctor!" He examines the patient, says he really does have food poisoning, starts to phone the health department. "Don't," the manager begs him. "Don't ruin me! I'll do anything you ask!" The "doctor" hesitates significantly, then...