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Tossed together by the computer, Carol Berman and Patricia Marks discovered that they had similar tastes in clothes, tended to cram their studies into long nights before deadlines, and shared a love of soul music. They even had a similar hangup: Carol sleeps with a "security blanket," while Pat feels lost without her own well-worn pillow. "I'm messy," says Carol, "and so is she." Don Denzin and James Sherry found companionship in a mutual appreciation of Thoreau's Walden and a joint jam session-Don on clarinet, Jim on guitar. Carol Tucker and Lynn McElroy were...
...Satan is alive and living at the Bramford, a haunted apartment house in Manhattan, where an ancient witch (Ruth Gordon) troubles a pregnant wife (Mia Farrow); both ladies are superb, thanks to the devilishly deft direction of Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water, Repulsion), who has a nifty horror hangup...
...Satan is alive and living at the Bramford, a haunted apartment house in Manhattan where an ancient witch (Ruth Gordon) troubles a pregnant wife (Mia Farrow); both ladies are superb, thanks to the devilishly deft direction by Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water; Repulsion), who has a nifty horror hangup...
...reminder that good looks can fade and desirability diminish. The party thrower (Kenneth Nelson) is a tormented Roman Catholic, undergoing psychoanalysis, who secretly hates himself and makes anti-homosexual quips in the same way that some Jews tell anti-Semitic jokes. Each of his friends has his own hangup. A Negro known as "the queen of spades" suffers rejection because of his unrequited love for a heterosexual white boy. One couple is undergoing an emotional rift: one partner is faithful while the other is promiscuous. There is also an outrageously effeminate guest (Cliff Gorman) who brings a flamboyant birthday gift...
...Though he also developed moral restraints against killing, these are not natural and tend to collapse under stress. Seeking a really nonviolent community, anthropologists point with hope to the peace-loving pygmies of the Ituri rain forest in the Congo. Unlike other men, those "primitives" have no male-warrior hangup; they retreat from power-seeking neighbors-and hugely enjoy the sensual pleasures of eating, drinking, sex and laughter...