Word: lovesick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Europe to dress up his college transcript, stretches his rudimentary French vocabulary into epic malapropisms. Alex (David Marshall Grant), an Oberlin aesthete, takes to reading Hemingway aloud and composing songs with lyrics like "Paris is a teacher who has lessons to give/ How to love, how to live." The lovesick Laura (Blanche Baker) turns sightseeing into a grim obsession by setting out to visit every listing in the Michelin Guide. Of course these students, like so many before them, are not so adept at going native that they can successfully resist an occasional Big Mac attack...
...traced to Jean Vigo, whose Zero for Conduct (1933), made with no professional kids, is still the screen's greatest poem to youthful anarchy. The 400 Blows exerted a strong influence on George Roy Hill, who in 1964 made The World of Henry Orient, which is about two lovesick Manhattan schoolgirls. As Merrie Spaeth and Tippy Walker scrambled across the city, energized but unaffected, they seemed all that could be hoped for in actors...
Klein and his colleagues have found that psychotherapy and the conventional antidepressants are rarely effective with the lovesick. But an 18-month study of ten patients, all women, showed that talk therapy combined with antidepressants called MAO (their chemical initials) inhibitors could shake them out of despair. Indeed, when these women were switched to placebos, five of them showed many of their old symptoms. Now Klein is seeking a $30,000 grant from New York State's Health Research Council for a more detailed, three-year study of the effects of MAO inhibitors on 60 hysteroids. Where will...
...freshness and originality. She has added comic dimensions to the character which never existed in either the "Superman" television series or in the comic books. Lois is at once the ardent feminist--"I'm not a girl," she declares, "I'm Today's Active Woman"--as well as the lovesick, horny girl who purrs the song "Oh, How I Wish I Weren't In Love With Superman...
...only when compared point-blank with the original. As an actor. Busey comes into his own this time around, after a career of character roles in little-seen films (Straight Time, The Last American Hero). Whether he is playing Holly as a hick in the big city or a lovesick husband or a teen-age idol, Busey always seems convincing. He brings a swagger to the musical numbers and an engaging buck-toothed charm to the script's dramatic moments. Maybe the real Holly was someone else entirely, but Busey is certainly the right man for this paradoxical film...