Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What Price Glory); directed by King Vidor; and principally played by John Gilbert and Renee Adoree. It is the story of a rich man's son, a riveter and a bartender in the trenches, and the French girl that the first of these three married. It has humor, terror and bewildering beauty. It has one of the most exciting stories ever filmed, direction unexcelled, and truth and brilliancy of acting. The Big Parade is the one film since The Covered Wagon that men, women and children must not miss...
...insulin for the relief of diabetes, or a von Behring an antitoxin for the cure of diphtheria, or a Park demonstrates the value of the antitoxin for the prevention of diphtheria, the world draws a long breath as if saying to itself, 'Now we are rid of that terror which has haunted the human race for centuries.' It then straightway forgets and goes on its way comfortably, assuming that, of course, the great discovery or invention is being carried into effect...
...even this powerful means of communion of the stage with the spectators is limited in its potency. . . In a whole series of dramas, classic as well as modern, the feeling of terror is sometimes suggested to the spectator, not only by word and mimicry, but by the very object of his terror, for instance, the ghost, or some other object of hallucination. The object of the dramatist here is clear; in order that the spectator may have at a given moment nearly the same experience as the acting character, it is necessary that he see the same thing...
...does the room or the plain or the forest, the place of the appearance of the ghost, not change at the moment of suggestion of terror in his features: why do the coloring and light remain unchanged, just as if nothing had happened. This is not yet monodrama. Monodrama must present the exterior spectacle in correspondence with the internal spectacle. This is the whole essence...
Once his automobile was wrecked. Singlehanded, to the terror of the trembling gas-hawk who had run into him, he tossed his own car out of a ditch...