Word: pavlovian
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This phenomenon much excites the attention of one Ned Pointsman, a half-mad Pavlovian working at PISCES (Psychological Intelligence Schemes for Expediting Surrender). Pointsman persuades the higher-ups to investigate the intricacies of Slothrop's sexuality, and the scene then shifts to testing grounds in southern France. Slothrop, after a time, manages to escape, and the remainder of the novel follows his odyssey from France through Switzerland into a by-now post-war Germany...
...Seeing With One's Own Eyes, shot in a morgue in Pittsburgh, poses a stunning alternative to Hollywood Pavlovian manipulation of audience emotion. Rather than suddenly swell the the musical theme under tragic characters, Brakhage, throughout a thirty-five minute personal interaction with autopsies, permits each viewer of the film to directly confront his own emotions, examine them, understand them. The Myth of Phos continues Brakhage's list of statements about the elements of the film process: light, darkness, projection, grain density, focus, and shadow movement. The Sexual Meditation series also extends established Brakhage pursuits: the tension of suggestion...
...this, it would be necessary both to overcome most Americans' quasi-Pavlovian reluctance to support any movement with substantial Communist elements, and their more justifiable queasiness at identifying themselves with a movement whose accession to power may well be accompanied by large-scale massacres of political opponents...
...audience was ready for a collection); at home he was taught his routines under duress. To make him learn his lines, he claims, his mother sometimes smothered him with a pillow or stuck his head under water. Early film clips in the movie show horrific visions of the Pavlovian result: a red-headed marionette masquerading as a prodigy of God. Even as recently as last year, his father proudly referred to Marjoe as a "preaching machine...
...expected to play a later role in David's story-perhaps to kill him, or to sleep with him, or (with sledgehammer irony) to turn up being his long-lost trampy-heiress half-sister. But placing that demand on an item in a narrative is the result of our Pavlovian response to rhetorical conventions. Interesting people float into our real lives, and just as arily float away, but in hard-core art we demand that major plot details assemble themselves into discernible constellations by the end of the work...