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...Davis has little difficulty deciding that the children would be better off in the custody of strangers. But what to make of a case like Roper's? Her seven-year-old son is attending school regularly. Her two-year-old daughter seemed content as she perched on the Naugahyde couch, watching cartoons. And Roper appeared genuinely distraught at the prospect of losing her kids. But what about the drug test? And the presence of a new boyfriend in her apartment? "I don't know who this 'Doug' guy is," Davis says. "The kids are O.K. one day, but what about...
...time the final scenes show us Bishop undergoing psychoanalysis in a mental hospital, we realize what has been building all along: the whole play is an allegory for male sexual development, with each stage of the classic Oedipus complex brought to life in gory detail. Bishop on the couch, caught between infantile mother-love and the prospect of a more mature sexual relationship, is the play's real setting...
...author's first New York City apartment in the 1950s was a walk-down: the "back half of a basement" with one room and a toilet down the hall. There this shy, Catholic girl from a small town in Rhode Island would sit "cross-legged on my studio couch, Vivaldi's Four Seasons on the phonograph" and feel "joy exploding in my chest. Because from this house I emerge every morning into the place my father promised would be mine one day. The place where there'd be lots of people like...
...reading of the Stoker tale. What distinguishes it is its serenely mannerist glamour. Almereyda shot parts in glorious "Pixelvision"--with a toy camera that gives the most garish images the patina of a dreamscape. Nadja is beyond a midnight movie; it's a late late show for the artistic couch potato...
...substance" is "weight-loss Nirvana." As I understand it, after being given this new wonder drug, the mice ate less, exercised more and lost weight. This is not Nirvana. Had the mice eaten more, exercised less and lost weight, then we would have a reason to get off the couch and cheer. H. MITCHELL SCHUMAN New York City...