Word: stupor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...star, and he shuffles through the cretinous proceedings with the guilty look of someone who has been through it all so many times before that he should know better. I Love My Wife is the kind of assembly-line candy bar movie that induces in an audience rage, stupor or pimples...
...your 1975 Chevrolet, climb in, settle back and turn the ignition key. Five numbers light up in red on your dashboard−and quickly go out. What were they? You try to repeat that sequence by quickly punching five numbered buttons in the proper order; in your stupor, you are too slow−or you get one number wrong. Try again. A different sequence of numbers flashes on. Another miss. Better pull yourself together and concentrate. But you fail for the third time and you know that now the car won't start at all for another half-hour...
Jean-Luc Godard faces off with rock, drugs and the black revolution in Sympathy for the Devil; the result is pretty much a stalemate. The film is fragmented, delirious and didactic, sometimes to the point of stupor. But it displays the incontestable energy and stylistic daring that have made Godard the cinema's foremost pop essayist...
...tale, though, the hero must fight without magic weapons or supernatural sponsors-conditions that do not ensure happy endings. In Craig, what once might have been thought to be evil is now seen as psychosis. Ariana is Sleeping Beauty, but no kiss is going to awaken her from the stupor that keeps her with Craig...
...insure that the animal will run slowly. The horse will then repeatedly drop in class. The public, fooled by a string of last place finishes and unaware of the true condition of the horse, will ignore him in the betting. The trainer then stirs the animal from his stupor with workouts. The horse becomes an easy winner at long odds...