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...film's funniest episode stars Anna Magnani as a middle-aged mother hen trying to herd her brood of three children, her terrified husband and her aged mother-in-law across a highway. Screaming at policemen, interfering with drivers, Magnani is a law unto herself as she belts the offending cars with her purse and shouts epithets at everything that dares to move against her. In a series of bright sight gags, she dashes between wheels and fenders, rescuing children, husband, and finally her mother-in-law's shoe-only to find that the store she is seeking...
...form; in Orlando, the hero starts out as a man and winds up as woman. More recently, lohn Fowles's The Magus dealt with a girl who was possibly 1) a ghost, 2) a nymphomaniac, 3) an actress, or 4) twins. Peter Israel's The Hen's House is filled with shifting symbolic identities, and Alain Robbe-Grillet's La Maison de Rendez-vous is peopled with so many polyperses that the reader has to beat them off with a stick...
...hospital had not been designed as a prison, and the locks had not been changed since it was built sometime after 1890. Said Hospital Superintendent Charles Gaughan: "We're holding murderers here in a hen coop." Sentenced in January to life plus ten years for armed robbery and sex crimes resulting from assaults on four women, DeSalvo, a former handyman, was never legally identified as the Strangler, but the minute details of his confession-which, by prior agreement with his attorney, could not be used as evidence-left little doubt that he was indeed the man who had murdered...
...incarcerated in a small room from which he is allowed to emerge once or twice a day in the company of a guard-and then only to visit a man who is either his warder or his psychiatrist. Y has come to think of this man as the Hen, and his prison as the Henhouse. At first, the sessions between Y and warder seem to be a form of psychotherapy. But there is something sinister in the Hen's objective; he seems to want Y to wallow in instances of minor childhood sadism. When Y balks and refuses...
...never mentioned. Just before the trial scene, however, the book offers a few clues to Y's wherefore. Y admits to himself that he sought out the Henhouse; that he is responsible for allowing it to become a prison; that when he visualized himself as another Hen, what he really wanted was to remain a part of the system. Finally, he realizes that before he can assert his autonomy, he must relinquish the whole institutional Henhouse world and reject the paternalistic hand of psychiatry, which first helped him but now threatens to smother him. Y's journey...