Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...atribute this in part to its superb settings and photography, that deepen its mood of terror and melodrama. Bergman's regular designer, P.A. Lundgren, has placed a surrealistic sequence near the film's end, in a claustrophobic attic stacked with canvasses, sculptures, and decayed bits of ornate furniture--an achievement that would have pleased the young de Chirico...
Brandt went on: "Least of all do I need to justify the fact that, even in my youth, I was a consistent enemy of the [Nazi] regime that brought us terror and war and meant the worst national betrayal." In his twelve-year Scandinavian exile, he said, he had won "the knowledge of how a state based on law can be made into a true home for the people...
...January inaugural. When the Nixons finally appeared, both networks closed in on a TV sight not soon to be forgotten-Pat Nixon, her face a portrait of distress almost under control, struggling hopelessly to do the smiling job her husband was accomplishing with ease, showing a trace of terror when the unsolemn crowd interrupted Nixon to shout: "We want...
...nakedness of the battlefield, when the soldier is all alone in the smoke and the clamor and the terror of war, is comparable to the loneliness-at times-of the presidency, when one man must conscientiously, deliberately, prayerfully scrutinize every argument, every proposal, every prediction, every alternative, every probable outcome of his action, and then -all alone-make his decision...
...ratify a Constitutional amendment forbidding any conditions on grants to schools. But most legislators seem to enjoy attaching puerile riders to appropriations, whether conservatives demanding a voucher of immaculate political conception, do-gooders trying to promote social justice by turning every classroom into a racial checkerboard, or liberals in terror of the establishment of a City of God on earth...