Word: expressivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Checking the psychological back grounds of some 80 cancer patients, Bahnson found that they all had a "poor, ungratifying, mechanical relationship to their parents." Since the parents were unable or unwilling to respond emotionally, he said, their chil dren developed a tendency to repress rather than express their own emotions...
...often with a deep faith in the perfectibility of man. In their self-conscious seriousness, they seem to be trying to live up to French-Poet Paul Claudel's contention that "youth is not made for pleasure but for heroism." Some of the demanding and perceptive students who best express the special things that their class wants...
Trans-Europ Express is a spoof of the spoof-suspense films presented in the Robbe-Grillet manner-which is to say that plot, character and motivation are kept at considerably more than arm's length. Strictly speaking, there are no characters at all, except Author-Director Robbe-Grillet, Producer Samy Helfon and a female assistant, played by Robbe-Grillet's wife Catherine. These three gather in a compartment of the Trans-Europ Express en route from Paris to Antwerp...
...This train is terrific," says Robbe-Grillet. "Maybe we ought to do a film about it." They proceed to rough out the beginnings of a plot into the girl's handy tape recorder while the express rattles along. Actor Jean-Louis Trintignant (A Man and a Woman) happens to be on board, and they decide that he is Elias, a dope runner on his first job for a big syndicate. Whereupon the camera picks up Trintignant sneaking furtively around the station, exchanging recognition signals and suitcases with sinister strangers and extracting a pistol from a hollowed-out book...
...installment of her account of a recent 18-day visit. She was a special guest of North Viet Nam, and it shows. Her report reads like the journal of a house guest in the home of an extremely touchy host: "I felt that it would be somehow impolite to express my curiosity in the form of a point-blank question; there are many questions one does not want to ask in Hanoi...