Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chose to invent," he recalls, "providing the star wore a dinner jacket at least once and was not obliged to run up or down stairs." Given a crack at a grade-A picture, Anhalt, with his first wife Edna, proved how good he could be; his first film, Panic in the Streets, starring Richard Widmark, won an Oscar for the husband-wife team in 1950. Another original was The Sniper, the story of a young man who gets his kicks out of shooting people through a telescopic sight. It got them an Oscar nomination...
...uproar moved through the steep hills of Fez and the souks of Marrakesh, where angry mobs cursed the government, burned police stations and sacked shops. Police and troops hit back in panic with machine guns and rifles, cracking skulls with clubs the size of baseball bats. In the rebellious cities, at least 100 rioters died; 844 more were arrested and given speedy prison sentences. Fourteen Moroccan leftists sentenced to death last year for fomenting revolution were hastily sent to the wall. The firing squad's aim: dissuading the rioters from further action. It seemed to work. Last week...
Rain of Stone. The time was 12:33 on a bright, warm Sunday afternoon. President Eduardo Frei was watching an air show outside Santiago when an invisible force seemed to seize and shake him. In Santiago's Hipodromo, 3,000 racing fans fled in panic as the grandstand roof heaved and cracked. Terrified swimmers in the open-air pool of the Hotel Carrera watched the water suddenly leap in foot-high waves. Three blocks away, cornices peeled off the Supreme Court and Congress buildings and rained down on the street...
...While boozy Commander Kirk Douglas is at sea, his wife (Barbara Bouchet) is at play, behaving like a one-woman luau. She shakes her hips at an Air Force major, lures him away for a nude swim, wakes up on the beach next morning in bleary panic as enemy planes strafe the sand and the holocaust at Pearl Harbor begins...
...neuroses of Actors Emil Tannings and Charles Laughton. By Sternberg's account, Laughton was not only incapable of delivering the simplest line, but could not begin a scene without listening to a recording of the Duke of Windsor's abdication speech, was in a constant state of panic, and froze so often in front of the camera that Sternberg was forced to film rehearsals, when Laughton didn't think the cameras were running...