Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tremulous version of the girl-in-a-woman's-body theme. Director Robert Enrico tries to lend his slender scenario some contemporary relevance by forcibly inserting a variety of fashionable camera techniques and casting a Negro Maoist. Though his color photography begins effectively-notably in Zita's terror-glazed recollections of the Spanish Civil War-it ends by stifling the film in a glut of self-consciousness. Annie's seduction scene, for example, is absurdly overplayed in slow motion. Such sequences may look poetic in the cutting room; in the rhetoric of film they have become...
Agnew drops the princess phone and shouts to Judy in the next room, "I'm it!" Whereupon the camera would zoom in on Elinor Isobel Judefind Agnew, 47, plump, brunette wife of the Maryland Governor, as she registers the pride and terror of being transformed from a cheerful home body who "majored in marriage" (as she puts it) into the wife of a vice-presidential candidate...
EMERGENT Africa has known more than its share of strife and bloodshed, from the Mau Mau terror in Kenya to the carnage of Congolese secession. But in scope of suffering, in depth of bitterness, in the seeming hopelessness of any solution short of wholesale slaughter, there is no parallel to the tragedy that has been gathering force the past 14 months in Nigeria?once Africa's brightest hope for successful nationhood. One of the opposing forces, wielding a full array of modern weapons from Britain, Russia and much of Europe, is the federal government of Nigeria. It is determined...
...everything. That is the tragedy of human destiny." Mocked by life, mankind becomes "a race of convulsionaries at the center of a cosmic farce." Since philosophical systems inevitably fail, Cioran is led to denounce reason as "the rust of our vitality" and the study of history as "the terror of chronology," both of which lead men to separate consciousness from reality. To Cioran, all truth is ultimately hoax, all certainties no more than "functioning lies...
...clear that they were going off to fight for Thailand, which he believes is "the next victim" of Communism in Southeast Asia. "Even today," he said, "the Communists are infiltrating Thailand and increasing their subversive actions against our country." In fact, at least 2,000 guerrillas are busy spreading terror through Thailand's Northeast, the country's poorest region...