Word: wreckings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over and infatuate your senses, how a movie's immediacy can hit you with its message without giving you the data needed to consider the issues it raises; how flashy technology can play upon your emotional vulnerability and creep into your bloodstream. A commercially calculated cynicism can warp, even wreck your beliefs...
...succeed." Then one day in November 1971, Mrs. Postma visited the old-age home and found her mother propped in a chair, tied to the arms, because a male nurse had decided she needed to spend time out of bed. "When I watched my mother, a human wreck, hanging in that chair, I couldn't stand it any more. So I shouted in her ear, 'It's all right, Mother! I will take care of you.' The next day I gave her the fatal shot...
...White is no longer the nervous wreck he was last year," the Harvard coach said. "He now looks very confident on the strip...
...bring out the remaining 14. Some survivors had lost as much as 60 lbs., and six required hospitalization for injuries; otherwise, they were in remarkably good condition despite having spent more than two months on a snow-drenched mountain. Only when the rescuers discovered that nine bodies near the wreck had been strangely carved and mutilated in ways unrelated to a plane crash did the truth emerge. Reluctantly, the survivors admitted that they had chopped the dead flesh into small pieces and eaten it. "It was like a heart transplant," explained one of the 16. "The dead sustained the living...
...Jack Lemmon) flies from Baltimore to the Italian island of Ischia to retrieve the body of vacationing Wendell Armbruster Sr., who has died in an auto wreck. Hardly a promising premise for light romantic comedy, but then Billy Wilder is a director who makes a specialty of unconventional rendezvous...