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Naturally. Landing finally at her brother's place, she decides that the cure for his glum raffishness must be pets on whom he can practice a responsible form of loving. Forthwith, she goes out and buys a menagerie of ducks, a goat, an affably neurotic dog and a pair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Excess Baggage | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

Boy meets girl. Boy loves girl. Boy loses girl to his home computer. And the electronic age gets its very own romantic comedy. Miles (Lenny Von Dohlen) is a nebbishy architect with a pretty cellist (Virginia Madsen) living upstairs. One day Miles' computer, Edgar, hears Madeline playing. It is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rushes: Rushes: Aug. 6, 1984 | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

Sound a little psychotic? That's the whole point of Repo Man, a movie which unabashedly aims to wallow in its own neurotic. Road Warrior or Decline--Repo Man, the first film by Mike Nesmith (yes, the guy from the Monkees), can't seem to decide which it wants to...

Author: By Michael J. Hirschorn., | Title: Out of Control | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

"Some of the people who call in get a certain exhibitionistic satisfaction from the byplay," Levine says. "Others, more neurotic, have a masochistic tendency to be attacked, to feel self-righteous and ignored." Chicago Psychiatrist Jeffrey Hammer suggests that some callers may see in the talk-show host a surrogate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Audiences Love to Hate Them | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

Leppmann, a literary historian and critic, is particularly adept at placing Rilke in his constricting time (circa 1900) and suffocating place (Habsburg Vienna). Given these obstacles, plus the additional one of a neurotic mama, no other modern poet grew more-or had further to grow. His early poems were distinguished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Revelations | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

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