Word: traumas
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...North by Northwest, Thornhill's adventure with the spies almost kills him, finally leaves him a more complete man than in the beginning of the film; Jeffries in Rear Window is more mature for his journey into depravity, as is Marnie after experiencing for a second time the trauma of her youth. Truffaut is too intelligent to afford dramatic consummation only to Julie's desire for revenge, and some indirect therapy does take place in The Bride Wore Black, Truffaut suggesting that at least three of Julie's victims die more realized human beings, better for having known...
...trauma is too much for Waugh. He becomes irresponsible, cheats with the dice, finagles the charts, juggles the schedule. He throws his cosmos into chaos. In the real world, he gets fired by his employer. As he drinks his troubles away, the people of the association comfort him. In the end, the players celebrate the death of Damon Rutherford with a passion-play re-enactment of the game. The cosmos no longer has any direction; the players are on their own. And there is the doomed Damon Rutherford, holding the baseball aloft, "hard and white and . . . beautiful." He says...
...domain. But Shapiro ran the state at least 50 days a year during Kerner's term, handling mine cave-ins and prison riots; when Kerner was off heading the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, Shapiro was acting Governor for 101 days. He got Chicago through the trauma following Dr. Martin Luther King's death, and has already traveled up and down the state. "I'm gonna campaign," Shapiro said, "because I'm gonna win." And nowadays he uses the front door...
...Mirrors. Amy Garrett was the first child to be chosen through an intriguing new adoption method. Video tape promises to eliminate much of the potential trauma of adoption procedures while making it far easier for agencies to unite prospective parents and children from different parts of the country. It was Norman W. Paget, 45, executive director of the Erie County Children's Aid Society, who thought of employing video tape in adoption after watching the instant replays used for televised pro-football games...
HOUR OF THE WOLF. Sweden's Ingmar Bergman returns to his favorite themes of spiritual crisis and psychological trauma in a dark parable of the deepening madness of a reclusive artist...