Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modern plays depend on banter between the on sustain the interest -- and Pinter is writing such dialogue. a play depends solely burlesque interchanges, some boring -- and even like Waiting for to drag in the second the amusement of this to wane. All of however, contain element of suspense, sheer terror which attention even when actual action is at a standstill...
...given features to half-remembered kings and evoked the majesty and terror of all-but-forgotten religions. Now Dr. Abner Weisman, a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology, has shown that sculpture can be a guide to the pathology of the past. On view at Manhattan's Pfizer Building is his unique collection of pre-Columbian figures, each of which is a medical case history in clay...
...awesome racing cars it has ever known: the Mercedes and Auto Unions. They were great, growling 600-h.p. monsters that could hit 200 m.p.h. on a straight -if they found one straight enough. Two world wars did their share to help, producing generations of youngsters thirsty for thrills. The terror of Thurber's aunt, who tried vainly to conquer a car and wound up pleading, "Somebody take this goddamn thing away from me," gave way to something the psychologists called "locomotor philia": the teen-ager in his chromed and channeled-down hot-rod who leaned out at stop lights...
...would look hard and deep, I would Revenge the terror that she strikes...
Young Actress Baxter, adroitly steered by Mackendrick through a delicate and provocative role, manages to project both tomboyish pluck and the elusive boldness of a child grown prematurely wise. In a fit of terror, the girl murders a Dutch hostage taken by the pirates, thus setting the stage for the film's incisive postlude. Safely delivered to England, her former captors gone to the gallows charged with her crime, Emily, like any pretty English schoolgirl, stands by a pretty English pond watching a toy sailboat drift away. Only the eyes reveal that within her child's body dwells...