Word: vitus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time London and the gay old '90s. The link is an aged general (David Niven) come home to dream-and to warn the young 'uns against making the same mistakes he did. This leads to so many flashbacks that Enchantment might have sent its audiences into St. Vitus' dance, had it not been for Cameraman Gregg Toland, who completed the picture a few weeks before he died (TIME...
...Vitus' dance. 2. Schizophrenia. 3. Stomach ulcers. 4. Epilepsy. 5. Sleeping sickness...
Rheumatic fever is hard to diagnose. Its symptoms-fever, aching joints ("growing pains"), nosebleeds, loss of appetite and weight, twitching resembling St. Vitus' dance-are easily confused with the symptoms of grippe and other ailments. Patients may recover from an attack without permanent damage, often without knowing they were really sick. But unless the patient gets skillful treatment, R.F. may .recur...
...beyond the crooked little streets of Prague's Male Strana, past the tiny shops of the alchemists in Hrachany, and the towering St. Vitus Cathedral, stands a bleak dormitory, the Massarykovo Kolej. It was here on the 17th of November, 1939, that the Nazis began their bloody massacre of Czech students which resulted in all universities being closed for the remaining six years of occupation...
...even more obviously conceived in the Mickey Mouse style. Red Norvo and some of his former sidemen of the Brunswick days found the kaleidoscopic score so complicated that they had to cut it nine times and even then the finished product sounded like nothing so much as St. Vitus's dance set to music...