Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Director Ken Russell is a true child of Blake. His two most recent films, The Music Lovers and The Devils, were so full of tortures, perversions and sexual hysteria that they could have been rated X for X-cess if for nothing else. The Boy Friend reveals Russell's other side-the campy, lyrical side that has been seen so far only in some memorable British TV documentaries. But on this side as well, Russell does not know when enough is enough. Having made too much of a bad thing in his earlier films, he now makes too much...
...fitted into the band quite comfortably. The crowd was wrecked, on their feet, and screaming with unbounded enthusiasm before the first number. They were here to have a good time regardless of what came out of the performance. There were faint echoes of prepared laughter like the canned hysteria of television comedy. Significantly, the concert hadn't started yet because of a Dead equipment failure. Weir and Leash took the opportunity to make some condescending remarks to the kids, suggesting helpfully that they might amuse themselves by "scratching each others' butts" during the interlude in the entertainment. The show that...
...metal back brace to correct a spinal curvature. On an 1887 ocean crossing-following a European tour that was unaccountably supposed to divorce Elliott from alcohol-the Roosevelts' ship was rammed by another, and Eleanor was treated to a 77tam'c-style scene of tragedy and hysteria that left her with a lifelong fear of water...
...Having been inside Sing Sing and other penal institutions (as an inspecting grand juror), I advise deliberation in assessing the Attica riot. Commissioner of Correction Russell Oswald made the only possible rational decision. He was facing primitive hysteria, obviously inflamed by subversives. He gave the same order that any field commander facing a public enemy in battle would have given...
...Love, with its male-nude wrestling, symbolic bulls and drowned lovers. Then early this year came The Music Lovers, a biography of Tchaikovsky, which, as Russell describes it, is "the story of a homosexual who marries a nymphomaniac." This summer, there is The Devils, an account of religious hysteria in a 17th century French town; in it, a far from celibate priest is accused of bewitching an order of nuns, and is tortured and burned alive...