Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mangled self-images before they've hardened into permanent, placid cripples. In their own unconscious way they're all fighting for their freedom. But they are cornered rats, and Mean Streets gives us the animal's final moves--the disbelieving laugh, the snarl, and the last gasp of panic...
Israeli officials have not yet imposed rationing. There have been no signs of hoarding or panic, and the shops seem to have plenty of food (except for a shortage of eggs, probably caused by the blackouts, which have disturbed the hens). Many of the jobs left vacant by called-up reservists have been filled by volunteers, ranging from teen-age American tourists to long-haired Hasidic Jews with white beards. An unexpected benefit of the crisis is the dip in crime. On one day last week, there were only 49 home burglaries in all of Israel, 50% below the peacetime...
...executive on the phone to Manhattan Internist John Prutting was in a state of panic. His sister-in-law had suddenly leaped from the dinner table in his apartment. She was speechless, her hands were clutching at her chest, she was becoming faint and turning blue. What could he do? The symptoms were all too familiar to Prutting. He calmly advised his caller to lean the woman over a chair, pound her on the back and reach down her throat with his middle and index fingers to dislodge the obstruction. The doctor heard loud thumping sounds, and soon a relieved...
...movie misses, too, the air of real panic and urgency of, say, 8½. Truffaut means, instead, to convey the consuming romance of the film-making process. Several sequences do break through to some intensity: Cortèse's muffing of a simple scene that starts comically and turns, with each of the actress's false starts and flailings, into a cameo of desperation; the director's dream recollection of his youth, when he sneaked down a street late one night and stole some Citizen Kane stills from outside a theater...
MUCH of the humor in Michael Bronsk's Man for Man derives from jokes that would seem dated on the most ordinary television situation comedy. Most jokes are on the order of a character's exclamation at a policeman's inopportune knock: "Don't just stand there... panic!" Many of these jokes seem dated in Man for Man as well as on television. But other do not, largely because the plot of Man for Man is a bit less bland than most situation comedies: at the end of the play, for example, four out of the eight male characters...