Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heating oil, they chopped up furniture to build a fire. One weekend they ended up with nothing in the house to eat except chocolate and marshmallows. Bud figured that promotion, transportation and the cost of musical instruments had put him $100,000 in debt. Just before panic set in, a New York talent management firm lined them up with MGM Records. Now their first single, The Rain, the Park and Other Things, has passed No. 50 on the charts and is climbing; their first album is out, and MGM is blitzing the music industry with an unprecedented $250,000 promotion...
...Riviera chateau draw ing room. Harold Wonder (Jerry Orbach) has an albatross complex and a symbolic knife at his throat. While his two children lie asleep upstairs, his wife is out cuckolding him with a Negro skin-diver, or so he thinks. Harold, in a skull-popping panic, half-dials phones, swigs champagne from a bottle, runs to the door with his scythe and roars out bloody maledictions on "the Goddamn spade frogman." In a performance marvelously sustained at the pitch of brilliance, Jerry Orbach sprays comic vitriol without ever letting the playgoer forget that this man's heart...
...bloody head as the car squeals around corners and the body refuses to disengage itself from the door. Again and again the camera will not spare us the after-effects of the gun battles, and we are trapped inside the getaway car as members of the gang, panic stricken and hysterical, are ripped apart by machine gun bullets. The death of Clyde's brother, Buck, virtually abandoned in a field, surrounded by vicious law officers, is unbearably powerful...
...beneath the usual intellectual level of Harvard professors." "Zzzzzz."). Academic competition is so intense that stories abound of students who hang blankets on their windows so that neighbors will not suspect extra nocturnal studying or, conversely, students who sleep with eye guards and all the lights on to panic a classmate...
...seeming fragility, she could hardly be tougher as an actress and a woman. And though she is not exactly a sex symbol, "sex," as the same director says, "is completely associable with her. If a guy had to make a pass at Sandy Dennis, he wouldn't panic...