Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defending itself against such challenges, the military pleads a much larger purpose than the emotional well-being of the individual soldier. As long as armies exist, that defense possesses a certain logic. Says Colonel Matthew D. Parrish, chief of Army psychiatry and creator of the mental hygiene consultation approach: "The mission of Army psychiatry is to serve the mission of the Army," not the individual. The individual, indeed, is seen by the military as merely part of an organism, of a fighting team, the effectiveness of which is threatened by the loss of any member. Thus the psychiatrist...
Hollywood has caught up at last. Wilder, 35, has lately been besieged with scripts and has sifted through them with his own brand of mad logic. What sort of actor would turn down a tempting offer from Mike Nichols to play in Catch-22, but accept the lead role as a Dublin manure spreader in a film improbably titled Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in The Bronx? To everyone's good fortune (especially his own), Wilder did just that. Says he: "Quackser was the idealization of everything I've wanted to do as an actor. He typifies where...
...explained on April 30, he was acting to save the lives of "our brave men fighting tonight halfway around the world"-an aim that has not been literally realized, since 339 Americans died in the Cambodian venture. If saving lives is the ultimate end of his policy, then sheer logic would decree that the best way to do it would be to bring every American soldier home from Viet Nam at once...
Most of the film has the quality of dislocation. It is lit like a Wyeth painting and informed with the lunatic logic of Magritte. Only twice does it grow didactic. In an Italian whorehouse, 19-year-old Nately (Art Garfunkel) confronts a 107-year-old pimp. The scene is photographed narrative, almost word-for-word from the book's symbolic and simplistic confrontation: weary but supposedly immortal Italy v. vigorous but naive and supposedly doomed America. When the boy accuses the ancient of shameless opportunism, the centenarian defends himself with the ultimate weapon: age. "I'll be 20 in January...
...meets are all impossibly rude: "We wanted to give you beans and jam for dinner, but my wife refuses to do American cooking," says Philippe's best friend, welcoming Shirley to his house for the first time. They file everything away in loony little mechanical categories they call logic. They are incapable of generosity or any human warmth. They believe that if they take baths every day their skin will come off in long strips...