December 13, 2008

Onerous

onerous



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–adjective 
1. burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship: onerous duties. 
2. having or involving obligations or responsibilities, esp. legal ones, that outweigh the advantages: an onerous [agreement].  


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In 1940 and 1941, David O. Selznick won back-to-back Academy Awards for Best Picture. In 1942, unsurprisingly, he was depressed. His wife, Irene, persuaded him to seek help, and, less than one year later, hale and hardy, he was eager to share with others the wonders of analysis. Thus the producer of those two Best Pictures, Gone With the Wind and Rebecca, became the producer of Spellbound

The director of Spellbound had never been "on the couch." (He even napped sitting up, sometimes at the dinner table.) True, Alfred Hitchcock’s pictures were dream-works that illustrated and dramatized a host of bête noirs, from intimacy to incarceration, but he claimed little interest in human psychology. "What is my motivation?" an actor would occasionally ask. Hitchcock’s reply was easy: "Your salary." His own salary and onerous long-term [contract] with Selznick International were two reasons he agreed to direct the studio’s "psychiatric picture."

hale
–adjective
free from disease 
or 
infirmity; robust; vigorous: [hale] and [hearty] men in the prime of life.  


bunker
stymie
they're just stymied by the [circum]stances of the film.
cumbersome
encumber
He was hailed as a visionary, fetishized by his fans, encumbered by [expectations]. 
Stagnation







 

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