Word: jaye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...painstakingly accurate script and followed it exactly, though the movie has the flow and spontaneous immediacy of improvisation. Altogether, not a film to rouse a distributor's curiosity, but its impact can not easily be missed or forgotten by any one. A bold, unsparing and valuable work. · Jay Cocks...
Erickson's successes have been described in a new and hagiographic book, Uncommon Therapy: the Psychiatric Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. (Norton; $8.95), written by Jay Haley, his longtime colleague and admirer. Haley shows how, out of hypnosis, Erickson has drawn a whole bag of ploys that persuade the patient to change himself rapidly. For example, a 250-lb. woman says she is "a plain, fat slob." Erickson takes over: "You are not a plain, fat, disgusting slob. You are the fattest, homeliest, most disgustingly horrible bucket of lard I have ever seen, and it is appalling...
Sacks, like many students and administrators in the Harvard community, takes a dim view of John Jay Osborn's picture of life at Harvard Law. Sacks, for one, objects to the movie's handling of a student's attempted suicide. "I think it was very unreal to present it as they did," says Sacks. Severe academic problems, Sacks suggests, are frequently more complicated than they seem...
...effect, Hoffman turned the hunted into the hunter. He gave Judah Best, Martin London and Jay Topkis-attorneys for a man who has not yet even been indicted-sweeping authority to subpoena Justice prosecutors, newsmen and anyone else they think may know about the leaks...
...Jay Cocks...