Word: vertigo
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...eyes of Robert Newton. Bass did the credits of West Side Story, scrawled on grimy walls like four-letter words. He drew the fixed and crippled hand of The Man with the Golden Arm and the jig-sawed corpse of Anatomy of a Murder. For Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, he let his spook imagination run on even further. He began with a vulture-close view of a human eye, then moved in side the eye. where spinning, vertiginously kaleidoscopic patterns appeared and changed form, starting Hitchcock's shocker with a Rorschacher. The names went by - James Stewart...
...sufferer, sidewalks sag, buildings wag. These are some of the symptoms that signal the onslaught of Meniere's disease, a recurring disorder of the inner ear that can in acute cases destroy the sense of balance and cause violent nausea, severe vertigo and progressive deafness. First recorded in detail by a 19th century French ear doctor, Prosper Meniere, the disease has been attributed to a variety of causes-cysts, tumors, allergy, arterial spasms, bacterial or viral infections, even psychological factors-and tends to disappear with the passage of time...
...past, some of the treatments for Meniere's disease have been almost as bad as the disease. Surgery to destroy the diseased part of one labyrinth ends the vertigo but leaves the whole job of balancing to the other ear and the eyes. It also deafens the ear involved. Another supposed cure has been the injection of alcohol into the nerves leading from the ear to the brain, but this sometimes causes facial paralysis. Now, in Edinburgh, the electrical engineering firm of Bruce Peebles & Co., Ltd. is perfecting an ultrasonic gun that doctors hope will cure crippling cases...
...Parkway pictures the intersections in a way to give a highway com missioner a nervous breakdown, but the sense of speed, flashing chrome and areas of green peripherally seen, are all there. Palisade, with its sudden dropoff into a blue void, recalls De Kooning's own sense of vertigo when he looked down from cliffside Palisades Park to the Hudson below...
Worked up from a novel by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, the French team that wrote Diabolique and Demo-niaque, this picture tells what happens to a victim of vertigo (James Stewart) when he meets a dizzy blonde (Kim Novak). When she goes round in circles, he goes round in circles too-until he falls. Jimmy is cast as a gumshoe who has drawn the enviable assignment of keeping a private eye on Kim. The lady's husband (Tom Helmore) is afraid that his bride, in the grip of a suicidal depression, may head for the deep...