Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theories would be to make advertising more effective. Certainly a major achievement of pop-psych is the art known as "consumer motivation," whose leading exponent, Ernest Dichter, keeps pouring out fresh insights in a monthly newsletter. Dichter perceives qualities in objects and situations that nobody, except possibly a mad metaphysician, has seen before. He proclaims that lamb is less popular than beef because it is associated with "gentle innocence"; that rice is a favorite "feminine food" because in the cooking "it expands and swells." Dichter also asserts that gloves are sexy because taking them off to shake hands...
...dwarfs whose medical corps plans to melt him down to 18 inches, François-Francis lands in a Swiss mental clinic. Released after further plot complications, FranÇois-Francis starts hopping through the titled beds of France and he becomes the erotic talk of Paris. But his mad snobbery causes him to lose the rest of his money and his marbles. By the time the truth is out that dishonesty with oneself is not the best policy, he is past recognizing...
...literal, the staging of this film is preposterous beyond belief. As Polonius delivers his parting advice to Laertes, and as we read his banal, senile lines, what we see is a purposeful, vigorous man hustling his son to the door in no uncertain manner. When Hamlet first plays mad for Polonius, his final "Except my life," appears to be addressed to the old man's parting back. It just doesn...
Shostakovich's score swells at all the wrong places. When Hamlet confronts Ophelia "mad," there is a chance for some very sinister stuff: a glaze-eyed Aryan appears, bearing down on her. But up jumps a nervous little Dragnet theme to turn it ludicrous. When Hamlet asks Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, "Am I easier to fret than a pipe?" the scene is played in heavy silence that exaggerates its portent. But presumbaly that's the director's doing, as, unfortunately, is a lot else...
Wounded Bruins are supposed to be awfully mean. And the Brown cross-country team should be growling mad when Harvard comes down to Providence...