Word: couched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...superb British films now revived at the Kenmore, though entirely different in subject matter, are amazingly similar in form and background. Both are told mainly by the method of flashback, one from the psychiatrist's couch and the other from a drawing-room reverie. Both have a musical accompaniment of late Romantic period music which is always insistent and always heavy...
...where certainly we do not look to our churches to preach the uses of affliction. It is consolation, 'peace of mind,' 'peace of soul,' that our religions offer on the competitive market place; the means are different, the pew versus the analyst's couch or the newest bestseller, but the product promised is always the same: adjustment, the opposite of agony...
...maid was sitting on the couch reading the paper; he put the mail on the floor and asked her to move over. Vag opened the book; it said "Career" again. He quickly turned the page and this one said "Dedication." "In few other countries in the world could the forces of business . . . respond with such independent choice to a new idea . . . they can . . . guide this group of young men toward the correct choice of their individually and independently chosen vocations . . ." They meant Vag, evidently. They were helping him make the choice. He started leafing through the book...
...involves him in a drunken brawl that kills her husband (Claude Rains), then prods him into fleeing with her across the Mexican border. Dazed by a concussion, Dr. Mitchum goes on compounding the crime long after it becomes obvious that Faith is a fugitive from a psychiatrist's couch...
When Zigmond started to close the house 15 minutes later, he discovered Brickman lying on he couch in the television room in a delirious condition. He also discovered Brickman's glasses, unbroken, on the bathroom floor...