Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neurosis has become glamorous. Movie Critic Pauline Kael speaks of "the nervous breakdowns, miscarriages, overweight problems, husband troubles, and all those mental and physical ills which now comprise the image of a great star. In the frivolous, absurd old days, stars were photographed in their bubble baths; now they bathe in tears of self-pity...
...bossy, the abdicator yields in arguments, the critic criticizes, and it is all supposedly plain-often painfully plain to the subject himself-when the others' observations of him begin to "feed back." If things go well, a kind of agape results. If not, the practice can be dangerous: nervous breakdowns have occasionally resulted from the intense personal exposure. These sensitivity sessions have developed a vocabulary that is fairly typical of today's popular psychology, some of its leading terms being "meaningful relationships," "openness," "interface situations," "shared feelings," "involvement...
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...
...Schippers, who grew so annoyed that at last he leaned forward, tapped Bing on the shoulder and said: "Please, Mr. Bing, I wish you'd stop it-you're making me nervous, and besides, you've got it all wrong...
...next two months, the Kennedy Round negotiators will warily examine each other's offers. Then they will go back to their governments to see what concessions they can make. In December and January, there will be the real horse trading, a nervous time of concessions and threats of withdrawals. Then, if all has gone well, the clerks and computers will take over to tabulate the new tariffs on some 3,000 items offered for negotiation by the Europeans and double that number offered by the U.S. Chances are that by next June the traders of the West will achieve...