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...different vein, an adult quadriplegic writes about "Solving Hopeless Problems" (he types by striking the keys with a stick held in his mouth), and explains his philosophy: "One adjusts to realities. I try to forge ahead, aware that life may never be full but determined never to accept less than I must." With a similar emphasis on facing facts, an article titled "How Different Is My Child?" counsels against overprotection-which can deprive a youngster of the experiences he needs to become emotionally independent-and against overexpectation, which can make a child feel that "he cannot do anything...
...film is not unamusing. Buck Henry has some nice pratfalls as the father (though I found Lynn Carlin labored as the wife); there is a Village rock audition featuring teen-age girls who struggle to ally themselves with crude and hopeless romantic lyrics; and an SPFC meeting during which evening-jacketed bourgeois folk turn on for the first time. But there is so little control over the film that even these go wrong: Henry often becomes a cipher; the SPFC scene is both cruel and whimsical in a mix that doesn't mesh; and I even may be mistaken about...
...recurrence of the disruption with Professor Cox. As Miss Day knows, when the University refused us the right to check bursar's cards at our second Counter Teach-In and when it refused us the right to bar bullhorns from the second event, we felt the situation sufficiently hopeless to cut off our discussions with Professor...
Antonio Coco, a wealthy Spanish industrialist, is in a car accident that leaves him paralvzed and amnesiac. While he sits immobile in a wheelchair, prey to guilt-ridden hallucinations, his estate and manufacturing company fall into hopeless disarray. Decisions are left unmade, allowances stop, family discipline falls apart and, worse, a Swiss bank account number is lost. The process of the film becomes an attempt on the part of his family, mistress, and attendants, to shock Antonio back into health by acting out various psychological traumas of his past (a punishment in which he is locked in his room with...
Despite the withdrawal from the naive optimism of the mid-sixties, that optimism was important. The quest for a more fulfilling existence is as necessary as it is hopeless...