Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city survives labor turmoil and Presley mourners...
Francesco Rosi's brilliant political thriller Illustrious Corpses, deals quite well with this rather complicated subject of Italian political turmoil. The film's theme of political assassination and a growing police state conjures up frightening Orwellian visions of Big Brother-type repression. It is even more eerily prophetic as it was made in 1975, before the Moro killing and more compelling than The Parallax View (an American film with the same theme of assassination) as it probably reflects a greater measure of reality...
George Carlin's adulthood forces him to engage in some introspection--sorting out his show material (he now leaves only 12 minutes at the end of each show for old material) and some attempts at film. The road to his adulthood, often fraught with rebellion and inner turmoil, mothered the self-expression and irony audiences have come to love Carlin for. Carlin has always been able to articulate, and to ironize, the sort of conflicts that have become more and more central to youth of America since the '60s: conflicts about sex and decadence and love and identity...
...this, then, I tried to write the story. I typed in haste and inner turmoil in a servant's room, and in 45 minutes brought out the story...
Some of life's greatest turmoil is over by the age of three. Though infancy may seem to be a time of games and gurgling, the baby is caught up in earnest and sometimes desperate attempts to make sense of the world, control aggression, and come to terms with the awesome power of parents. In a remarkable new book, Oneness and Separateness, Psychologist Louise Kaplan, 48, offers a baby's-eye view of the child's struggle to become an individual. Behind that struggle, says Kaplan, are opposing needs of the child-to cling to mother...