Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This latest in a long line of movies about mental institutions is chiefly distinguished by what it does not do. It does not revel in too many lurid scenes of zany inmates being violent or bestial (though it has its share, enough to earn it an R rating). It does not idealize the mental institution as a citadel of scientific wisdom and compassion, nor caricature it as a latter-day Bedlam administered by sadists. It does not explain away its protagonist's schizophrenia with some unearthed childhood trauma, as if the condition were a sort of Freudian acrostic...
...notch woman sportswriters. A baseball devotee since she was little, she used to write fan letters to Willie Mays. "It's hard to explain why you love baseball without sounding like a professor or a 10-year-old kid," says Phillips. "A case can be made for the mental elegance of the game-its beauty, its symmetry, its exquisite timelessness. The other side of the sport is that it's just great fun-it is running free...
Police have checked mental hospital records, tracked dozens of suspects for days, investigated many false confessions, and even talked to a few nervous wives who suspected they were married to the killer - all to no avail. Law authorities have also had witnesses hypnotized to aid their recall of details, and have vainly asked astrologers to predict the next killing- just on the chance that the murderer is himself a follower of astrology...
Pavlovich, who has been hospitalized several times for mental stress, apparently spends his time at home these days. "He just doesn't get out of bed. He doesn't want to do anything. It's very sad," Homans said...
...more creditable if Penthouse didn't devote so much space each month to advice by Xaviera Hollander, "the happy hooker," who favors whatever two or more people can do together. He also publishes long accounts of readers' fantasized sexual successes, which he apparently considers a contribution to mental health: "Some browbeaten bastard in a bed-sitting-room reads it and says, I'm not a freak.' " How much further does Guccione long to go? "I'm no missionary. It isn't really what we want to do. It's what the public wants...