Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knifing scene at the end. When the maids ransack the kitchen, throwing food and smashing plates, they are doing what every girl would love to do and Papatakis achieves his intended portrayal of the normal impulse run wild. Finally, the murder scene, done with brilliant jump-cutting, creates terror before the audience can realize what has happened...
...added that what is needed is peace and an end to subversion and terror so there can be reasonable expression of the political feeling of the people in Vietnam...
...powerful effect. His camera seems to rove, news-reel-style, seeking truth among the halt, the healed, the healers, the doubters and the eyewitnesses involved in some ancient miracles. Occasionally, the film is as violent as history itself. The slaughter of the innocents looses an avalanche of pity and terror upon a sunny hillside, and the Crucifixion scene could scarcely be more graphic. These episodes are offset by the subtle lyricism of the flight into Egypt, when Mary turns for a last, lingering look at the humble comforts of her home...
...periodic nervous breakdowns. The French army had fought seven years to persuade Algerians that they were Frenchmen, while in Paris, 200,000 Algerians living in jerry-built Afro-Islamic Harlems were not allowed to be Parisians. For them the dirty work and a diet of boiled cabbage, of terror and reprisal, of po lice chasing Algerians into the Metro and beating them up underground, and of the noise of distant plastic bombs to make it all exciting...
...presnt nightmare which strengthens opposition to terror also demands despair. Oglesby admits that he sometimes feels as if the movement of the 1960's will be a curious footnote in American history -- a history written in a foreign language. He notes that some tell him not to reveal this intimacy, and adise him to crusade with the fervor of a millenial faith. This, he feels, would be a fraud. And there is, perhaps, a value in the horror story. "When men begin to quake, they may begin to move...