Word: libidos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...difficult not to idolize Gnossos somewhere in your deepest libido; he gets away with everything. He does incredible varieties and quantities of dope but never flips out; he treats girls like objects and never feels guilty; he can go to war and not be shot; he can act outrageously and never be reproached. He is the complete hip college hero, and the aura of this rubs over to Farina...
Putting a cursory make on a lovely blonde English major named Tobey (Yvette Mimieux), Quigley (Christopher Jones) finds a pleasant way to spend his summer vacation. When the fall term arrives, however, his libido is once again diverted. While still dating Tobey, Quigley also beds a beautiful black fox named Eulice (Judy Pace). Commuting on his Yamaha between Tobey and Eulice, he meets Jan (Maggie Thrett), a freaked-out flower child who tempts him with "magic brownies" and wins his heart by asking, "Do you think it's possible to be Jewish and psychedelic at the same time...
...have never seen a more sublime demonstration of the totalitarian mind, a mind which might be likened to a system of gears whose teeth had been filed off at random. Such a snaggle-toothed thought machine, driven by a standard or even by a substandard libido, whirls with the jerky, noisy, gaudy, pointlessness of a cuckoo clock in Hell...
...time when theatrical fashion seems to be running toward staged freak-outs and ad-libido dialogue, the APA Repertory Company chose two drawing-room comedies for the first productions of its 1968-69 Manhattan season. Each of them, moreover, is in verse: T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party and Molière's The Misanthrope. It was a brilliantly offbeat dramatic selection, but there, unfortunately, APA's brilliance ran out. The staging of the Eliot play is so inadequate that it points up weaknesses of the play that were not so apparent in the more religiously...
...love for Johnny, an advertising salesman who has just lost the Xerox account. As the pair bicker and belt each other a la Edward Albee's Virginia Woolf, it soon becomes clear that Wilma is twice the man Johnny is. Long ago, she kicked the living libido...