Word: scream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...academic husband into politics? Take on a new lover? Or pull back onto her puppet strings the old lover she never quite had the courage to claim? It is a compassionately balanced mood-portrait of modern woman: boredom at the level of panic, a yawn that comes out a scream. And it is a private masterpiece of Hedda, at least as much Worth as Ibsen...
...Nothing, actually. It's just that every nigh-like clockwork at four a.m.-I wake up, jump out of bed, and scream my lungs...
...quality of an obsession should be measured not only by its height but also by its length. Ingmar Bergman's towering concern has endured a lifetime, and it has centered on a single theme: the silence of God. Of late, that silence has been as clamorous as a scream in such films as The Hour of the Wolf and Shame. With The Passion of Anna the Lord takes discernible form. "This time," the narrator declares, "his name was Andreas." But given the trappings of speech and senses, the earthly incarnation remains spiritually mute...
...cows on their way to the last roundup (Entertaining Mr. Shane; TIME, Oct. 22, 1965). He was a black-comedy farceur who could dance on a coffin and spit in the corpse's eye (Loot; TIME, March 29, 1968). It has been said that "a joke is a scream for help." In Orton's mouth, a joke was an urbane substitute for murder. He was a wild Wilde...
...meanings, but that we have lost the words themselves. We have lost ourselves. Language is becoming just another commodity, subject to the rapacious degradation of competition, advertisement, and engorgement. Someone's voice breaks, then someone's head, then someone's heart. The sensitive man can only say: "If I scream, you will say that I am barbarous; If I whisper, you will not hear me; If I speak normally, you will say that I am indifferent." A great poem, a Vietnam headline, a back-page conundrum all appear the same- mute and urgent; just as a general, a soldier- killing...