Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scott Fraser, a social psychologist at New York University, was one of the observers who kept round-the-clock vigils over the car for 64 hours. What surprised him was that most of the car stripping took place in broad daylight. All of the theft was done by clean-cut, well-dressed middle-class people. Furthermore, the major theft and damage was always observed by someone else. "Sometimes passersby would engage in casual conversation with the miscreants," says Fraser...
Honor to the Sovereign. This is not a gentleman's Hamlet. It evokes the bloody tragedies of revenge from which Shakespeare lifted some of his plots. In fairly vengeful but clean editing, Director Tony Richardson has cut the play to less than three hours running time, erasing a gravedigger here and a courtier there. Returning to stage direction after five years of indifferent film making, Richardson provides no innovative fireworks, but with a firebrand like Williamson on view, who would have noticed...
...clean white face colorless and faded...
Dirty and Clean. By his own estimate, Bach has survived a few thousand fights with his own wife of 28 years and observed at least 20,000 more between his patients. The experience has made him wary of what he calls "Virginia Woolf" fighters. At their worst, they specialize in the delights of "carom-fighting" (jabbing at a spouse by mocking his religion or his child by a former marriage), "hit and run" (saying "You made me lose my appetite" in the middle of dinner), and "psychoanalysis" ("Your childhood was more pathogenic than mine, you poor thing!"). Though less neurotic...
...simply cannot release all their love feelings unless they have learned to manage their hate." In group therapy with 250 pairs of pugilists, who paid $492.50 per couple for 13 "fight-training sessions" during the past six years, Bach has evolved a set of common-sense rules for fighting clean in marriage. By applying some or all of them, he reports, couples can channel the energies of nuptial nastiness into continuous self-renewal. Among Bach's injunctions...