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...interested in sensations as psychology, Director Petri forgoes the subtleties of a typical Jamesian ghost story to concentrate on visceral effects. The movie has many kinky and splendidly horrifying moments, including a sadistic nightmare, a daylight visitation in a garden, and a tumultuous seance sequence Franco Nero, in a difficult part, manages to convey just the right amount of obsessive menace;, while the excellent Vanessa Redgrave, in a simpler one lends to the proceedings a saving edge of meticulously rendered reality...
...situation--one in which the conventional terms "sanity" and "insanity" are reversed--is all too commonplace nowadays. And yet its popular acceptance has created the atmosphere which enriches a book such as The Four-Gated City. For we are still playing the same Jamesian game of placing bets on the resolution of the future. When rational, we are, of course more skeptical. Only now we are even less inclined to pretend we are making our choices on anything like rational grounds. No, instead we accept the fact that our psychology drives us toward accepting the "irrational" as the only possible...
Liller and "Jamesian Joe" Butwin tied for the MVP award. A special citation for duty above and beyond the call went to Jerry "Bull"Gerst, the corn-fed lowan, for stealing home from first on a pop fly and two errors and scoring the winning run. Gerst suffered multiple lacerations of the knees, but Stillman reports that he will be able to play in next week's rematch...
...memorized the story of Isabel and became a Prince of Jamesian Order. He read books about books and wrote about them and it was good. His pants changed from blue jeans to bell bottoms as his politics switched to an exquisitely diffident pink...
American literature has often been starved for lack of a grand theme-a Tolstoyan war, a Flaubertian passion, a Jamesian conflict of cultures. The Ne gro revolution, at once violent and vital, agonizing and altruistic, could provide such a theme. Novelist Ann Fairbairn tries to tackle it in this ambitious, achingly overwritten epic. The result is a compelling argument for instant Black Power-if only to avert a sequel...