Word: kisses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talks of his personal life (he divorced his first wife, a Balinese dancer, and married a photographer last year). But he is willing to allow glimpses of his mind: "My relation to my camera is a combination of the psychiatrist's couch, a machine gun and a warm kiss...
...feel guilt at the destructive act, and a resurgence of affection. From this springs the taboo against parricide, fratricide, and, eventually, murder in general. Miller's final selection is from a biography of Proust, which tells of the young Proust's trauma at the denial of his mother's kiss at age seven, which the author perceives as the turning point in Proust's psycho-sexual development...
...Love Story seems almost incomprehensible to a modern audience. Ollie's capacity for social outrage consists of marrying a girl who looks more at home in a country club than he does. Three years after Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? , Segal's hero is scarcely able to kiss a Cliffie who merely claims to be a former Italian Catholic. With poker face, Jenny attributes the crazy affair to the liberal atmosphere at Harvard-or Mother Leveller, as she is known to friends. Jenny always mentions her family's poverty with vague discomfort, as would any girl with so formidable...
...modern psychoanalysts, men have known that the family, along with being a source of immense comfort, is also a place of savage battles, rivalries, and psychological if not physical mayhem. Psychoanalyst R.D. Laing says that the "initial act of brutality against the average child is the mother's first kiss." He finds it hurtful that a child is completely at the mercy of his parents, even to having to accept affection. Laing's colleague, David Cooper, calls the nuclear family the "ultimately perfected form of nonmeeting" and, in a new book called The Death of the Family, demands its abolition...
...Ninth Symphony was done twice in one day. In Los Angeles, Zubin Mehta, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and a phalanx of friends staged a twelve-hour Beethoven marathon. And in honor of the 200-candlepower occasion, that most devout of Beethoven fans, Schroeder, dispatched Snoopy with a canine kiss for Lucy...