Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That sort of unhappiness wells from deep personal sources. Yet it is also related to his more universal concerns. Skinner worries about the fact that, as Walden Two's Frazier put it, "our civilization is running away like a frightened horse. As she runs, her speed and her panic increase together. As for your politicians, your professors, your writers?let them wave their arms and shout as wildly as they will...
...According to Calley, almost nothing was said either about protecting civilians or adhering to the Geneva Convention. For three months after arriving in Viet Nam, just after the Tet offensive, Calley's company suffered heavy losses chasing an unseen enemy through mined rice paddies. Calley developed "a mild panic" that grew into hatred of the Vietnamese as Calley's patrols took repeated sniper and mortar fire from villages. The My Lai massacre followed at the height of this confusion and frustration, a sad confluence of bad training, bad leadership, bad intelligence and worse judgment...
...Irish Republican Army turned to a new tactic in Northern Ireland last week: indiscriminate terror directed against the civilian population. The result was appalling panic in the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland's largest city. Forty persons were injured in a series of explosions that severely damaged the headquarters of the ruling Unionist party as well as a random selection of other targets: a clothing factory, an office building, a bacon plant. Along the border, a customs post was destroyed and a national guardsman was killed by gunfire from a speeding car. A 19-month-old girl was killed...
This movie shares one problem with another new film about dope called The Panic in Needle Park. Both Mutrux and Jerry Schatzberg, who directed Needle Park, are too much absorbed by the mechanics of addiction. They include lengthy and excessive footage of dope, needles, veins and various techniques of shooting. Mutrux and Schatzberg understand well enough the conditions of hard doping, but they do not adequately suggest the causes...
...closer dimensions of films. Kitty Winn performs with meticulous naturalism, and there is a gallery of strong secondary performances, including a nice cameo by Alan Vint as a tough, low-key narc. But even such sensitive, finely observed acting cannot provide the depth of insight or sympathy that The Panic in Needle Park so badly needs...