Word: recurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apparent reason, hacks up the body in a cellar and dumps the pieces from a railway bridge onto various passing trains. If there is one thing Madame Duras likes, it is a nice crime of passion, the bloodier the better. Shots, screams, strangled cries, murdered wives and jealous husbands recur in many of her stories, and so does a restless and tormented heroine. Claire Lannes is only the latest in a long line of broody ladies who are young no longer, neglected or betrayed by their husbands, obsessed with violent crime, ready to pick up the first available...
...similar set-to, if not a duel, could possibly recur this year if Wallace won, say, the 47 electoral votes of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina. In that case, either Richard Nixon or Humphrey would need 55% of the remaining electoral votes to take the election. A popular-vote cliffhanger such as 1960 might well send the election to Capitol Hill-resulting in all sorts of weird possibilities and permutations...
Protests of this nature, then, are bound to recur. It is a truism that the lack of democratic voice leads to illegal student force, which in turn leads to changes in the University. Neither student power nor student freedom is a guarantee against student force. "It is naive to think that student feelings can be channeled into institutions," one University official remarked recently...
...film in association with types of images and varieties of camera movement. Water (in pools, cascades, rivers, oceans) is continually associated with mystery and emotional confusion. It is a barrier, literally separating the characters, or figuratively suggesting their failures of insight. Wire fences, slats, and latticework also recur as a motif of division and isolation. Concrete architectural elements abound in certain sequences, carrying with them an implication of desolation and sterility. Repeated images of speeding trains come to be emblems of the growing disorder of the characters' emotional lives. Similarly, in a film which is built around static compositions...
...fantasies themselves are often glorious; visions of a black-haired white-robed maiden (Paula Pritchett) walking in superimposed images through various landscapes recur to everyone's satisfaction. Among Rooks' star-studdend hippie cast,--Jean-Louis Barrault excels as Harwick's doctor, at times involuntarily imitating the writhings of his tortured patient, trying bravely to comprehend the connection between the two divided worlds...