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...choleric insensitivity. He can't get across what he means, at the same time his wife's feelings crupt in baroque and hyperactive detail. Nick literally tries to slap Mabel back to sanity. When the relatives gather for dinner upon her return from six months in an asylum, he exasperatedly demands. "Conversation! At parties people have conversation--you know--talk!" Near the end, his wife tries to lash her wrists, and in a clumsily symbolic scene. Nick stops the cut with a Band...
JONI MITCHELL: COURT AND SPARK (Asylum). Continued exploration of the post-youth dilemma-the need for roots, the fear of commitment-by one of rock's classic stars...
Willy recounts her close relationship with Graham Nash. Free Man in Paris describes the frenetic "starmaker machinery" she and Elektra-Asylum Chairman David Geffen escaped during a European vacation...
...schizoid personality, but people around Detroit didn't know about that. They understood the frustration and anger that went into what he did, though, that his rage was only born out of trying to get along. Right before Johnson was tried for first degree murder, committed to an insane asylum and recommended for permanent incarceration by the judge, a reporter visited him in his cell and showed him things people had written calling him a hero. "I'm no hero," he said...
...Ford later this month, the Russians last week allowed Lithuanian Sailor Simas Kudirka, 44, and his family to fly to the U.S. Kudirka attracted world attention four years ago when he leaped aboard a U.S. Coast Guard cutter from a Russian fishing trawler in American coastal waters, seeking political asylum. He was beaten and dragged back aboard the trawler while embarrassed U.S. crewmen looked on. Kudirka, who claims U.S. citizenship through his Brooklyn-born mother, was released in direct response to a message from Ford to Brezhnev...