Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hero-victim is a middle-aged solicitor, and it is the hour of his ultimate estrangement. His clients shrug him off. His mistress, wearying of him, cancels plans for the weekend with him. His clerk, who has really been running the law practice, gives notice. His secretary, with whom he used to catch a few winks on the office couch, tells him she is pregnant and leaving to marry her new lover. His daughter listens passively to his wandering verbiage, then walks wordlessly away from him. His wife attacks him savagely on the phone, and he opts...
Clearly this poses something of a moral problem for the good townspeople; it's not every day that Murder Inc., offers to go public. But director Bernard Wicki for some reason keeps his camera resolutely trained on Miller, the victim. As the town, by quick stages, turns on him, Miller covers a reasonable--but hardly unexpected--course from confidence to apprehension to terror...
...pulled over a broken or badly burned limb, the inner tube fits loosely. Then, as a first-aider blows into the outer tube, air pressure forces the inner tube tight against the limb and extends it straight. The pneumatic splint prevents further damage from broken bone ends until the victim gets to a hospital. In burns, it prevents the seepage of body fluids-a major cause of burn "shock." And the pressure of the inner tube on the limb, whether broken or burned, prevents further bleeding...
...denounced people who stand around watching street crimes without taking action. Now that this fellow had taken action, he was cut and dying, and he wanted the columnist to know about it. For the hour that followed, the newspaperman and his editor (Gary Merrill) tried to determine where the victim was so they could help him. This is the only really revulsive show that has opened this season, pretending to a depth and insight that it totally lacks...
...Never lie, never .tattle," she taught him, and young Douglas was put to the test during his first year at West Point. The victim of a bit of hazing that became a national scandal, Douglas was ordered by a military court to name the offending upperclassmen. His mother cautioned him in a poem...