Word: rosebuds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with all her precious books. Insanity, it seems, is contagious: she grabs a letter opener and stabs him. From here, the scene changes to the hospital where he and his mother spend an hour and a half rehashing their unimaginative pasts, their guilt, their dreams. He even has a Rosebud--as a baby, his mother used him to cudgel a fellow who rejected her. Hence her numerous suicide attempts; hence her neglect of her cancer...
...room, and he strolls about at will. He offers a lengthy account, for instance, of the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti and of their subsequent executions in the 1920s. Not all of the digressions are somber. Starbuck meets Nixon and finds the President's smile "like a rosebud that had just been smashed by a hammer." The hero's meditations on money are childlike enough to produce odd insights. On his first morning of freedom, Starbuck leaves his seedy hotel to buy a newspaper. He then has an urge to call up the Secretary of the Treasury...
...bureaucrat. Poach'tegg (sometimes translated Omelet) is only after Agafya's property, a two-story brick house, the walls of which he thumps to test their soundness. Zhevakin (Randall Duk Kim) is a diminutive ex-naval officer who dreams of duplicating the girls of Sicily with their "rosebud mouths" and cushiony flesh. Then there is a snob of an ex-infantry officer, Anuchkin (Jake Dengel), who, though devoid of social graces himself, insists that any bride of his must speak French...
...career. She has just finished playing Anne, the youngest Bronte, in Andre Techine's The Bronte Sisters. She prefers directors who let actors work out their own interpretations. This list includes Goretta and Chabrol but not the notoriously tyrannical Otto Preminger, for whom she played a part in Rosebud, his not very successful film of a few years ago. "He yelled so much," she recalls...
...widespread health problems. As the Treaty Council's Genocide Document, submitted to the conference, states, "Some 38 percent of Native children were found to have serious hearing handicaps by age four. The death rate for tuberculosis is four times as high among Indians as among non-Indians. ...On the Rosebud Reservation (South Dakota), Indians are 40 times more likely than the general population to contract strep throat and scarlet fever." Overall, the mere chance of maturing for Native Americans is small...