Word: flickeringly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gardish comedy geared to the perceptions of bearded anarchists. But for half of its 80-minute length, practically anyone can enjoy it. Anyone, at least, who is reasonably irresponsible, mad about old movies, and perhaps a wee bit crazy in the first place. Written and directed by Theodore J. Flicker, onetime entrepreneur of a Greenwich Village coffee-and-show house known as The Premise, the movie tells of young Jack Armstrong (Tom Aldredge) who arrives in An Unidentified City-the one substantial clue to its whereabouts is a Statue of Liberty in the harbor-and tries to open a coffeehouse...
...German concentration camp in which she lost her husband and parents, she has a derelict's vision of the world as a place where love is impossible and the human condition hopeless. The secret of survival in such a world, she has learned, is to smother every flicker of feeling. The old man appeals to her at first because he seems to offer her comfort in exchange for a minimum emotional payment on her part...
...After Joe had changed clothes, Teddy and Eunice Shriver joined their father in his bedroom. When he asked to turn on the television set, Teddy stalled, said it did not work. Old Joe pointed to the unplugged power cord. Teddy reluctantly inserted it-but as the screen began to flicker on, he yanked the cord out again. Then he told his father about Jack's death. Joe is a tough old bird, in the best sense of the phrase; he understood the news, took it without visibly flinching, and insisted on watching much of the final ceremonies...
Each executive took some tests that seemed, at first glance, to have nothing to do with mental ability. They were asked to show how steady they could hold their hands, how fast they could wiggle their index fingers, how fast a light could flicker before they saw it as a steady beam. Such studies were to show how well the nervous system was functioning at the physiological level. There were other tests that dealt with reactions to abstract patterns, and that graded the subjects on ability to understand and remember what they heard and read. Because of little-understood crossovers...
...season gets under way, the networks are putting on display their new entries in the armchair dial-flicker's game of Russian roulette...