Word: maniacs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sigmund Freud was not the luckiest of men. After making the century's biggest breakthrough in the direction of mental health, he was denounced for his pains as "a sexual maniac" and "the Antichrist." Later his leading disciples deserted him. Then at the height of his fame he was hit by an incurable cancer and died without witnessing the full impact of his ideas. Though only 32 years have passed since his death, that impact now seems largely spent, and Freud himself sometimes appears little more than a joke saint of pop cult. Many of his ideas have been...
Antique bottles are also in demand. California's leading bottle maniac, retired Home Builder Albert Cembura, remembers his 1960 discovery of a turn-of-the-century still, complete with hundreds of bottles. "I was fascinated," says Cembura, "but when I went to the library, I found there was almost nothing written about bottles, so I decided to do something about it." Doing something, Cembura's way, consisted of founding antique-bottle clubs, as well as a separate organization for modern-bottle collectors ("The oldtimers," Cembura says, "are snobbish. They are only interested in bottles 60 years...
...second act gives us the same couple, this time in an American hotel, this time confronted with sleeping sickness and a crazy southern doctor, whose son turns out to be Jan Egleson, the Mexican maniac of the earlier act. The doctor attempts, not to cure his patient, but rather to turn him into a Frankenstein character, playing on the patient's own death wish. The patient runs into the audience, and when cornered by the doctor's son and his own wife, escapes by swinging from the top of the theatre on a rope, crashing through the scenery, and bringing...
Some cock-eyed wonder, either at the Orson Welles Theater or Columbia Studio's booking agency, has double-billed riverrun and Dr. Strangelove. Viewing the two young lovers juxtaposed with Kubrick's maniac militarists gives the lie to the former's life-style. Even to rather lethargic men of good heart disaffected by the chaos last spring, all Korty's emphasis on such personal virtues as civility and vegetarianism seemed dilettantish, ultimately self-gratifying; the moral foundation of the kids in riverrun is perhaps not far removed from that of their parents. Perhaps riverrun is even a reactionary film...
...former Canadian citizen of French extraction fed up with the spineless approach of American authorities to law-and-order, I say "Hurrah for Pierre Trudeau" [Oct. 26]. Here stands a man nine feet tall, unafraid of the maniac minorities. May the powers-that-be in America take heed-while there are still powers-that-be to take heed...