Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million cheering Moslems waving green-white-and-red flags. Benkhedda was swept from his Jeep, borne shoulder-high through the ecstatic crowd, losing his habitual dark glasses on the way. But behind the cheers and the swirling flags lay a new threat to the tortured country. Now that the terror campaign waged by the Secret Army against the Moslems had at long last subsided, the Moslems began to fight among themselves, haunted by the familiar specter of all successful revolutions: fratricidal war between the moderate and extremist wings...
...terrain itself provides the ultimate drama, beauty and terror of the film: cascading rock-strewn rivers that can smash an outrigger like a coconut shell, the green deep-pile carpeting of the rain forest, so dense that only needles of sunlight ever filter through to the dank jungle floor, the incessant droning whine of insects, and the voracious, slimy leeches, the size of amputated little fingers, that have to be burned off the skin. In New Guinea, the cruelest headhunter is still Nature...
...acute vertigo, hypochondria and a tendency to uncontrollable homesickness. His literary ability won him a job as city editor of a Cincinnati newspaper, but his first view of police court sent him home with the shudders. His neuroticism, although he learned to control it. left him with a lifelong terror of going beyond the "cleanly respectabilities." Eventually the young man collected himself, wrote a campaign biography of Lincoln, and was given the consulship at Venice as a reward. When he returned, he became editor of the Atlantic and settled in Boston, where no one forced him to observe police-court...
...fact remained that with last week's Algiers truce, reason was at last reasserting itself, and terror was fighting a rearguard action...
...Kafka; into its ruined corridors and dank corners Welles moved his props: the Advocate's gigantic gilt bed, hundreds of dripping candles, decaying tables and books. Wrote Director William Chappell in the London Sunday Times: "Welles discovered Kafka's world, with the genuine texture of pity and terror on its damp and scabrous walls, real claustrophobia in its mournful rooms, and intricacies of shape and perspective on a scale that would have taken months and cost fortunes to build...