Word: victimizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard fell victim to an old cross country malady this afternoon. Although Baker and Hardin turned in respectable performances, Coach Bill McCurdy's forces lacked their usual depth. Instead of the tight bunch of earlier races, Harvard's third, fourth and fifth men straggled in out of the money...
Iowa-born Dr. Phillips, director of a Naval medical research unit in Taipei before joining SEATO two years ago, simplified a Rockefeller Institute technique for measuring a victim's need for fluids and salts, a process that until then had usually required sophisticated hospital equipment. Working mainly in East Pakistan, Thailand and the Philippines, he developed a new method of intravenous feeding with sodium bicarbonate and other salt solutions. This replacement allowed victims of cholera to outlast the disease until recovery could occur. Because it is cheap and so simple that trained laymen can use it, the Phillips treatment...
...from funny-peculiar. Novelist Bruce Jay Friedman (Stern, A Mother's Kisses) puts one of his pop-skulled, Mom-obsessed neurotics in a chateau on the Riviera during the night his wife is out cuckolding him with a Negro. Jerry Orbach is wildly, excruciatingly believable as a modern victim-persecutor, one minute hiding under the coats in the closet, the next brandishing a threatening scythe at his enemy, the world at large...
WAIT UNTIL DARK. A blind woman (Audrey Hepburn) who has become the nearly helpless victim of a trio of terrorists led by Alan Arkin tries to equalize the situation by removing all the light bulbs in the house; but she forgets the one in the refrigerator-with chilling results...
Eventually, Hepburn realizes that she has allowed herself to become a helpless victim of The Mob-trapped in her apartment, the phone line cut, the neighbors gone, friendless, sightless and alone. Whereupon the most malevolent criminal advances on her, knife in hand. She throws some of her husband's hypo in his face, temporarily blinding him. Then, to provide the great equalizer, she extinguishes every light in the house. Hunter and prey slowly circle each other, waiting in the dark. Suddenly he remembers the one overlooked illumination and opens the refrigerator door...