Word: lovingness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The phrase rings of Erich Fromm's description of the orgiastic union: "the world outside disappears, and with it the feeling of separateness from it." The ecstasy -- in Fromm as in the film--is always ephemeral. The public that filled Time's letter columns and opposed the film on moral...
Pinocchio's nose grew longer with each fib. Howard's merely twitches in private glee at each deception. Up to this point, Douglass Wallop (The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, The Good Life) has created an amusing if implausible scoundrel and a book that makes suitable summer...
Kissinger has devised a totally new diplomatic approach. He brought a special compassion for human misery and an understanding of the political problems of other men that in the end transcended even the awesome Kissinger ego. That compassion is rooted in his past, and there is no better explanation than...
Murray, TV writer turned social misfit and lovable bum, lives with a nephew over whom he has no legal claim--a "middle-aged kid" named Nick. Murray loves kids, and kids love him, presumably because he has a kid's-eye-view of conformity and hypocrisy in adults. When the...
THE OTHER FOUR CHARACTERS are just as assured. Susan Ehrlich's Sandra is an appropriate mixture of the fun-loving and the affably neurotic; Joe Mobilia's Arnold--the social worker with his heart in his glasses--is perfect; and David Goldbloom, as Leo Herman, plays what amounts to a...