Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part-time students, off-duty policemen, housewives and retired people as probers. James Millstone, an assistant managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was refused auto insurance by Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. of San Francisco because of phony information obtained from an elderly neighbor, who was mad at Millstone because he put up antiwar demonstrators at his home. The neighbot falsely told an investigator for O'Hanlon Reports Inc. of New York that the editor was a long-haired, bearded hippie who let his children run wild, had been evicted from three previous residences...
Died. Sue Kaufman, 50, journalist and author (Diary of a Mad Housewife Falling Bodies); in Manhattan. Diary, a novel that explored the vulnerabilities and frustrations of a sophisticated young couple trying to make it in Manhattan, was later a successful movie...
...episodes and traumas often veer toward the neo-Gothic, with social secretaries replacing spinster govenesses, and gay cousins occupying closets that mad old women once inhabited. Auchincloss also occasionally mires himself in melodramatic ramblings that he evidently perceives as powerful prose ("Orgasm with David was like the raising of a communion cup before an altar that knew no sacrament but love.") but these indulgent tirades are only sporadic; Auchincloss is generally a smooth and vivid writer...
...Exorcist II: The Heretic, Father Richard Burton arrives from the Vatican to search out Pazuzu in Linda's soul, and meanwhile have a religion-science face-off with Psychiatrist Louise Fletcher, who wants to do the job by hypnosis. Pazuzu gets mad as a hornet - or rather as a locust, the guise in which he usually appears. He makes Linda's eyes glow and flings her postpubescent body about like a beanbag. Soon she is back in that bedroom in Georgetown, where Burton tries to rip the heart - literally - out of her possessed alter...
...combination of boredom, dust and the New Mexico sun. At any rate, Peckinpah should have had the rest of the beer because, whatever the problem, the crew of his latest picture, Convoy, is threatening to reverse the usual procedure and quit before being fired. "Either Sam has gone mad or the rest of us have," says a wardrobe man. Adds a cameraman: "This is a training ground for idiots. We are all out to lunch...