Word: rear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ambassador John Gordon Mein had just left his residence in the suburbs of Guatemala City after a luncheon honoring a visiting State Department specialist in Central American affairs. He was alone in the rear seat of his chauffeured Cadillac as the big sedan moved north along Avenida la Reforma. A small green Toyota suddenly pulled in front and forced Mein's car to the curb. A red Buick darted up to block the embassy car from behind. Two men in green fatigues got out of the Toyota and ordered Mein from his car at the point of a submachine...
...tanks moved down Wenceslas Square, youths marched to their front and rear, shouting in chorus, "Long live Dubcek! Russians go home!" The statue of King Wenceslas was covered with boys waving the red, white and blue Czechoslovak flag. Atop the king's head, they erected posters proclaiming...
...play's end, a man and a woman-who have seemed to be members of the audience-sedately remove all their clothes and saunter behind the curtain at the rear of the stage. After one performance, the woman came up for a snack in the cafe restaurant...
...point-of-view, the director showing action as seen by the protagonist. When the audience and the characters share a single eye, audiences naturally begin to identify with the person through whose eyes they see; Hitchcock often undermines our complacency by forcing us to identify with a peeping tom (Rear Window) or murderer (Psycho). Halfway into The Bride Wore Black, the camera begins to follow a young mother and her son walking home from school; although we do not see Julie Kohler (Jeanne Moreau) following them, the boy's glances directly into the camera lens make us realize Julie...
Hitchcock's films often concern individual therapy and emotional redemption through bizarre and indirect encounters with melodrama. In North by Northwest, Thornhill's adventure with the spies almost kills him, finally leaves him a more complete man than in the beginning of the film; Jeffries in Rear Window is more mature for his journey into depravity, as is Marnie after experiencing for a second time the trauma of her youth. Truffaut is too intelligent to afford dramatic consummation only to Julie's desire for revenge, and some indirect therapy does take place in The Bride Wore Black, Truffaut suggesting that...