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...water vapor and the sea-salted air of Cape Canaveral, anxious humans are always around to protect it; it gets what energy it needs through a bundle of wires called an umbilical cable. This sheltered period is comparable to a baby's gestation in its mother's womb...
What's the Price? "A Marwari," the Marwaris like to say, "gets business acumen in his mother's womb." Actually, the Marwaris more probably learned it by scratching for a grim living in the Marwar region, a desert area of rugged hills and parched climate that is one of India's poorest areas. To escape this fate, Marwaris began emigrating to the city three generations back, becoming small shopkeepers in Calcutta or Bombay. They work longer and harder than anyone else, lend a helping hand to each other (there are no Marwari beggars), and single-mindedly devote...
...talks about people who perspire audibly; and he knows others who make opium out of the poppies sold by veterans. He calls himself a "latent heterosexual" and says he has an intense desire to return to the womb-"anybody's." He owns an impatient tape recorder that constantly talks back at him, saying: "I know, I know, I know." His father, he remembers, once worked in a factory but was replaced by a small gadget. His mother, he says, bought...
Hysterics, when Freud (Montgomery Clift) begins to study them, are scorned by neurologists as silly women who act up to get attention, suffer at worst from a "wandering womb." Freud doubts the diagnosis, suggests that hysteria proves the existence of unconscious thoughts. Most of his colleagues laugh in his face, but Dr. Josef Breuer (Larry Parks) describes a hysteric named Cecily (Susannah York) who relieved a symptom simply by talking about what caused it. Freud takes over the case. And so begins a vastly exciting drama of detection, in which the audience simultaneously sees a lurid mystery unfold...
...during 450 years, syphilis has slaughtered and maimed millions, blinded and deafened them or driven them mad, crippled babies in the womb, and ruined the lives of millions of dependents who had no direct contact with...