Word: vertigoes
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...father's control extends into Charles's mind. He has periods in which he is overcome by violent forces that black out his memory. He wakes up with bloodied hands, and, in a sequence recalling Hitchcock's Vertigo, finds himself going down a set of stairs that tilt and swing wildly under...
...office. But now, for the first time in his scar-studded career, he bestrides the American political arena like a colossus. By every sign, omen and pollster's tally sheet, Nixon and his running mate Spiro Agnew have it made. The President may be forgiven a touch of vertigo these days...
...pilot one of the early Gemini flights, Shepard was dropped from space flight and barred even from flying except when accompanied by another pilot. Reason: he was plagued by Meniere's syndrome, a puzzling disturbance of the inner ear, possibly caused by a buildup of fluids, that produces vertigo, nausea and ringing noises. An able, no-nonsense administrator, Shepard was made chief of the Astronaut Office in Houston. But his longing for the launch pad remained. In 1968, on his own insistence, he underwent a complex ear operation (involving implantation of a thin, one-inch-long drain tube). When...
...OTHER films, Jean Rouch's "Garedu Nord" is perhaps equally stunning and disturbing. Rouch who, along with Chris Marker, invented Cinema-verite (the difference between Maker and Rouch and the recent American copies is roughly that between the incredible Hitchcock of Vertigo and the bankrupt Polanski of Repulsion) is a master at forcing an audience to change their sympathies. Fantastically aware of the possibilities of a frame, Rouch can totally confuse a complacent viewer by having an actress turn her body about thirty degrees and in so doing undermine her earlier sympathetic position. In "Gare du Nord" these abrupt shifts...
...story (although we don't learn this until the film ends); by showing how his warped vision limits the success of his life-style, Chabrol has created one of the few truly original and important single characters in recent narrative films (others are Ferguson in Hitchcock's Vertigo, John T. Chance in Hawks' Rio Bravo, Bannion in Lang's The Big Heat...