Word: hysteria
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...playwright's lead, but it is more difficult to avoid Mildred's fantasy encounters with Shirley Temple, Gene Kelly and King Kong. These are as cute as quicksand and replete with campy posturing. Maureen Stapleton tries to enliven these proceedings with her patented brand of chicken-coop hysteria, which is itself fast becoming a theatrical hazard...
...pure scandal-mongering. It is simply naive to explain artistic creation solety by sexual trauma, and cheap to elicit sympathy for an artist by the sordid expose of private scandal. Russell twists the facts and fabricates the milliew. The result is an hysterical film, rather than a film about hysteria. Even worse, Russell revels in his gossip--he has a fiesta turning a genuinely moving story into a turgid peephole show...
...from other British teen-age girls. But at night they become birds of prey. Sometimes silently, sometimes shrieking, they swoop down in groups on unsuspecting victims in dark streets, at lonely bus stops and in deserted toilets. Kicking, biting, scratching, punching, they reduce the victim-usually another female-to hysteria and then disappear, stealing perhaps only a few pence. To Londoners, they are known as the bovver (cockney for bother, which in turn means fight) birds, the newest and in some ways the eeriest street gangs since the Teddy boys terrorized London...
Disease. Gaullist reaction to the disclosures verged on hysteria. Prime Minister Pierre Messmer denounced Aranda for "acting against morality and against the law." Pompidou, in one of his semiannual press conferences last week, lamented that photocopying had become "a disease of our times" -though he promised to check carefully on the integrity of Gaullist candidates in next March's parliamentary elections...
...landlord, and the ravishing Rosalind Cash as Keach's black girl friend are especially memorable. Jane Alexander portrays Keach's wife, however, as if she were a prune intended for medicinal use only, and Scott Wilson's rookie cop is totally consumed by actor's hysteria...