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...Raoul Berger, Warren Senior Fellow in American Legal History, told the Senate subcommittees investigating President Nixon's use of executive privilege Thursday that Congress is the "superior power...
...played here by the international beauty Helmut Berger, Ludwig never consults a plan, hectors an architect or drives a construction foreman crazy. Visconti doesn't even make anything humanly or dramatically interesting out of Ludwig's other major project-rescuing Richard Wagner (Trevor Howard) from his debts and subsidizing the première of Tristan and the beginning of work on the Ring Cycle. Such activities imply a mysterious will and energy that cries out for interpretive speculation; but this would interfere with Visconti's simple view of Ludwig as a moony homosexual victim...
Very often, Berger finds, replays can demonstrate to patients that their relationships with others go wrong because they send contradictory "double messages" when they speak or listen. One illustration: a husband responded to a suggestion from his wife with the words, "That's a good idea"-but at the same time he brushed an invisible bit of dust from his trouser leg with a gesture of almost contemptuous dismissal. Similarly, a wife's quiet posture as she sat listening to her husband suggested attentiveness, but her face looked bored...
...another variation of the video technique, Berger projects as many as twelve pictures of a patient side by side, each more blurred than the preceding one. For many patients, he says, these multiple, shadowy images serve as a bridge "into deeper inner selves" that have remained, like the images themselves, elusive and distorted. Berger asked one shy, self-demeaning salesman with virtually no memories of his childhood to comment on split-screen images of himself. "It's like me looking into the past," the salesman said, "and I get smaller and smaller until I disappear into nothingness." Then...
...critics of Berger's approach, video tape is no more than a distraction, an expensive plaything. But Berger and many of his colleagues consider it not a toy but a tool, and not prohibitively expensive. Adequate equipment, Berger says, can be bought for two or three thousand dollars...