Word: couchful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Freudian fashion, the patient seeks a surrogate parent. The analyst, a divorcee and failed mother, comes to view her patient as a surrogate daughter. Each woman uses the analytic relationship to relive, and make up for, errors that were made in their other lives outside the room with the couch. Ironically but somehow predictably, as Dawn slowly improves, her analyst regresses...
...Zelig encompasses more than just one man's extended analysis session. In this film, Allen puts America on the couch. Unlike Annie Hall, or Manhattan, Zelig doesn't depict the main character's perception of the world, but vice versa. It is not even really a movie, but instead a fictional documentary: a fabricated composite of newsreels, newspaper article collages, and interviews today with people who knew him then, as well as with current experts on the subject (Allen brings together an impressive array of intellectual heavyweights to mock themselves, including John Morton Blumlisted as authoring "Interpreting Zelig"--and Susan...
...learn to look pretty: "We're professionals, like models. We make the women envious and we make the men feel cheated, and that's not as easy as it sound." Just before the least attractive of the three bears him off to her apartment (he sleeps on the couch), the author provides this little vignette...
...credible in this very observant intellectual community. It is instructive to note that the last boycott held by a group of Harvard Black students (i.e., before Afro. Am Studies, the Foundation, etc.) was not against some "racist" person or policy of the University, but against former Black basketball couch Satch Sanders, a warm and caring person who sacrificed part of his professional career to work with Harvard students. Some Black students boycotted him because he "played too many whites." One can only wonder where this self-destructive behavior ends...
...machine was perhaps their finest hour. There was the unstoppable scoring of DenHartog, the outstanding direction of Finn, the inspired play of White and the top notch defensive work of Martin and Piersiak. Throw in a few heralded performances from some talented underclassmen and you've got what Crimson Couch Carole Kleinfelder called one of her squad's "sweetest victories in history...