Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...woman who has totally left the doll's house in spirit, but who still occupies it out of social convention, a woman trying to "keep house" with desperate calm while undergoing an inner earthquake. One reason that the present production seems so fresh is that Hedda's plight is seen from Hedda's angle of vision. The ultraneurotic Hedda has always been seen from a man's angle of vision and caters to the male notion that a woman only has to be made love to properly to avoid becoming an angry, frustrated bitch...
...tracking shot that closes in on a fleeing man. The studio in which Lang shot the film must have been a prison. The cells, psychiatric or criminal, in which characters are repeatedly locked completely differ from the one cell that appeared in The Gambler. That room realized the romantic plight of its inhabitant, Mabuse's mistress: trapped by her love for him in a space which, though closed, had great depth. By betraying him she could have escaped. Her refusal left her at least the room for the full violent expression of her emotions, throwing herself upon the barred door...
...call attention to the plight of 500,000 political prisoners in 60 countries, Amnesty International last week nominated its first "Prisoners of the Year." Those selected: Eleni Voulgari of Greece, who was sent to prison for ten years by the Greek junta for sheltering her Communist brother-in-law; Daniel Madzimbamuto of Rhodesia, an African nationalist leader who was imprisoned without trial four years ago; and Larisa Daniel of the Soviet Union, wife of imprisoned Russian author Yuli Daniel, who was sentenced herself in 1968 to four years of Siberian exile for demonstrating against the Soviet policy of "fraternal...
Metals in the Body. Superficially, there would seem to be little relationship between parkinsonism and the plight of some Chilean miners who have suffered massive manganese poisoning. But an imaginative, Greek-born investigator now working at the Brookhaven National Laboratory noted that some of the symptoms are similar and that the same part of the brain is involved in both conditions. Thanks to his astute observation and his persistence in trying a "discarded treatment, 2,000 or more parkinsonism patients in the U.S. are now enjoying the first effective drug treatment for the disorder. There is hope that after...
Many Britons were annoyed that Philip talked about the royal family's financial problems on American TV. Some found it hard to sympathize with their plight. William Hamilton, a staunchly antimonarchist Labor M.P., may indeed have reflected the views of overtaxed Britons when he asked: "Does nobody at Buckingham Palace know that millions of loyal subjects are struggling to live on less than it costs to keep the royal corgis?" They are the short-legged dogs that the Queen breeds...