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...movie, Jeannette (Margot Kidder) epitomizes Self-Gratification, admitting "all she wants is to feel good." Phil (Ray Sharkey) plays Big Bucks, the New York photographer gone to California to bring in big money and live in big houses, with glossy pictures of himself hung all over his mansion. The Mystic is Willie (Michael Ontkean). Mazursky, whose last movie, An Unmarried Woman, successfully analyzed an urban marriage gone awry, tries to write a morality play of our own time. It is an ambitious project, but somehow an impossible task at this juncture. How in 1980 can a man make a movie...
...Vancouver, Canada, and Berkeley, Calif. He worked for a while in the psychedelic ward of the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic, helping people deal with bad trips and good. Back in Boston, he studied macrobiotics and the "Fourth Way of Healing"--a method derived from the esoteric teachings of the mystic Gurdjieff--as well as Silva Mind Control. In between Hollingsworth also slipped in four years of psychoanalysis and many hours of Zen practice in San Francisco and Northampton, Mass. The upshot of all that...
...plane turned smoothly, cut through the drizzle on the runway and rose into the muffled brightness of the clouds. We sipped coffee, the pilot speaking little but holding true to the ubiquitous grin. He was a flying mystic, spinning yarns about Kierkegaard and the ineffable quality of flying. We dropped from the clouds, touched down the plane at Detroit City Airport...
...political and public relations possibilities of the Olympics better than Adolf Hitler. The show he staged in Berlin in 1936 was, in its grandiose effects, designed to be rhapsodized by Leni Riefenstahl, the epic cinematic poet of Nazism. An array of swastikas lined the Reichs-sportfeld in the vast, mystic excess of the genre; Hitler jugend glowed in the golden well-being of their Aryamsm. At the nighttime finale, reported The New Yorkers Janet Planner "a giant chorus sang Schiller's words to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony; overhead, 17 searchlights from far outside the arena made a lofty...
...which never changes, can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality, and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value." From the biblical references to the gift of the Magi, to the modern-day totem of triumph in Olympic competition, gold holds a mystic promise. Says Smelser: "Gold resides in the subconscious of man as a tangible symbol for all the fantasies that are completely positive...