Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Things began to come back. He was Ernest Steele-Ernest K. Steele. He had been fishing, then driving down Franklin Canyon Road on his way home. He guessed he had gone to sleep; he had a vague memory of terror, of feeling his car plunge through a fence and sail out into the gulley. He twisted on the hard ground until his back was raw and his wounded hand throbbed with pain. Then he thought of his wife, Mae, at home in Richmond, and he lay still and wept...
...opening scenes, haunted with grimly exaggerated sounds of wind, in the desolate mid-marsh graveyard where Pip first meets the convict, are an achievement in romantic terror; the vast, dark,dust-ridden rooms in which Miss Havisham holds court in her rotting wedding dress are presented with the same belief-compelling recklessness...
Today Trujillo would like to be a gentleman of ease, and loved by all, but time has infected him with the same terror he has spread. He wears a bulletproof vest, keeps his own food taster, and dines only in his own home. He arrives at diplomatic banquets after dinner is over, bringing three bottles of his own Carlos I brandy, from which the corks must be removed before his eyes, and from which he drinks only after others have drunk first...
...beloved, sure-fire tramp with an equally original, but far less engaging character-a man whose grace and arrogance alone would render him suspect with the bulk of the non-Latin world. He has gone light on pure slapstick and warm laughter, and has borne down on moral complexity, terror and irony with an intensity never before attempted in films. At a time when many people have regained their faith in war under certain conditions and in free enterprise under any conditions whatever, he has ventured to insist, as bitterly as he knows how, that there are considerable elements...
...Kafka invented a variety of dramatic images. Sometimes (Investigations of a Dog), the victim of murder by mortality is a dog. Sometimes (Metamorphosis), he is a man who has been bestialized into a gigantic beetle. Sometimes (The Burrow), he is a little, nameless, furred animal, burrowing or scuttling in terror under the earth...