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...this psych-fi chiller, Timothy Findley's choice of psychiatrist is not the over-familiar Sigmund Freud but his rival Carl Jung, herald of the theory of collective unconscious. Jung's fictive patient, known as Pilgrim, is an X-Filer's dream and an HMO's nightmare: every time he dies, he comes back to life. Pilgrim is obviously a dramatization of Jung's doctrines. Too obviously. The action is bracketed by the 1912 sinking of the Titanic and the first day of World War I in 1914, and the apocalyptic deep-think brings to mind Peter DeVries' remark about...
...Manchurian Candidate (1962) John Frankenheimer directs Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Angela Lansbury in this classic and savvy political chiller. Not Sinatra's best role, but his best movie. Worth it for the garden-party scene alone...
...Water is cooled down with a heat exchanger using freon as refrigerant," he says. "In the chiller, gas is compressed, and then as it expands, the cooling effect results...
...Manchurian Candidate (1962). John Frankenheimer directs Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Angela Lansbury in a political chiller. Savvy and memorable dissection of anti-Communist paranoia in Washington; the garden-party scene...
...whether it should come to the rescue with a dose of easier money, as it did in 1987 to restore confidence. One fervent hope was that high-rolling investors would come roaring back into the market, looking for bargains. But while it was easy to attribute last week's chiller to everything from program trading to superstition about Friday the 13th, there was a deeper message: confidence in the stock market will remain shaky as long as the U.S. economy rests on a mountain of debt that neither politicians in Washington nor business leaders on Wall Street seem willing...