Word: phallically
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...stepped onstage in front of a gold lamé curtain at Las Vegas' new International Hotel, coordinated his pelvic girdle and his phallic guitar, closed his eyes, tossed his head and sent a solar wind of nostalgia over the 2,000 middle-aged record executives, hotel guests and show folk assembled for the opening night. It was like being back in the innocent '50s with Blue Suede Shoes, Love Me Tender, Jailhouse Rock, Don't Be Cruel, Heartbreak Hotel, All Shook Up-and of course, the mangy Hound Dog ("cryin' all the time"). But things weren...
...fists -a symbol of dissent popular with Boston area student activists-attached to their robes. At Pomona College, something of the spirit of '69 was summed up by the class poet, James E. Rosenberg, who instead of a speech read a passionate poem of societal rebellion, replete with phallic imagery and four-letter bravado...
Having failed at titillation, the movie tries an onslaught of vulgarity. As if he had personally discovered the phallic symbol, Director Christian Marquand presents a parade of hydrants, fingers, pointers and thermometers. Then-he backs Candy up against a urinal, down on a toilet seat and up above a blood-soaked operating amphitheater. Yet with all his excesses, Marquand is a figure of refinement compared with Scenarist Buck Henry (The Graduate), whose idea of humor is an aside to the heroine: "Why don't you put a meter on it and we'll all get rich...
...Take the centerpiece of a comprehensive show of Westermann's work mounted at the Los Angeles County Museum. Its title is the first eye opener: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea. The figure's mouth is an angry gap, its nose vaguely phallic, its ears two wooden plugs, its body a cupboard. When a viewer (avoiding the museum's watchful guard) opens the cupboard door, he finds a tiny armless man dangling head down from a trapeze. Beneath, a ship is sinking in a sea of bottle tops. A savage commentary...
Savage Sleep lets the reader sit in as a kind of guest analyst at the games the troubled mind plays. Is that ether cone a phallic symbol? What is the significance of those circular patterns that Marks' toughest patient keeps making in her vegetables? Eventually, Marks finds all the answers about his patients and himself. In fact, his only failures result from the meddling of those pompous reactionaries who, according to Brand, run our mental hospitals...