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...Furies (Paramount) is a pretentious exercise in Freudian dramatics, set in the New Mexico cow country of 1870. Its main characters, driven by vengeance and greed, wear their passions as openly as their six-shooters. And they switch from hate to love, and from love to hate, as readily as they shift from a canter to a trot...
...Animal." The arrogance of these claims is equaled only by their lack of substance. In fact Leo's intellectual life was almost wholly given up to a prolonged self-analysis on Freudian lines. He diagnosed a big part of his neurosis as a "pariah complex," and for the last 25 years of his life he tended his complex as lovingly as a housebound spinster caring for a windowful of potted plants...
According to Sargent Kennedy, Registrar, about a dozen students a term misread their exam schedules and show up in the right place at the wrong time, or vice versa. Most common misreading of the printed schedules seems to be the result of a sort of Freudian censorship, whereby the student replaces "9:15" by "2:15" in his sub-conscious, and never knows the difference...
Many psychologists will be irritated by the authors' Freudian patter. But their main conclusions make considerable sense...
With hardly any waste motion behind the scenes, Liebman gets plenty of movement on the TV screen. In 27-year-old Sid Caesar he has a TV-raised multi-dimensional comedian who is equally convincing as a slot machine, a head-lolling infant, a British general or a Freudian psychiatrist just off the plane from Vienna. Caesar's comedy partner is pint-sized Imogene Coca ("No one knows how old she is"), who can switch from a prim Victorian to a stripteaser to a Wagnerian Valkyrie without missing a nuance or a laugh...