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LONG TAKES are alternated with staccato bursts of images, much like the structure of Robert Lapoujade's brilliant Le Socrate . But in that film the quick cutting served as a form of chorus, while here the psychic icons of the central characters create a mosaic of emotional cross-references, used in turn to bore, startle, perplex, or electrify the viewer. The nature of these icons, which compose the main body of the film's formal statement, is too varied to effectively catalogue here, but includes a great deal of crude psycho-social imagery concerning the fall of idealism since...
...laughter. Laughter serves man well. It can relieve his anxiety and tension, pave the way to friendship and enable him to tolerate his own-and life's-absurdities. Laughter is vital in helping to define what is human: its absence is generally taken as a sign of grave psychic stress. Yet laughter itself has never been satisfactorily defined. "The laughable is what we laugh at," writes New Zealand-born Philosopher D. H. Monro in his survey of prevailing theory. Argument of Laughter. "We laugh because we have seen something laughable. That seems...
Nanny and the Professor (ABC) is yet another despicable pastiche of overused situation-comedy staples. Put together one beleaguered widower (Richard Long), three oppressively cute kids, one English governess with psychic powers named Phoebe Figalilly (Juliet Mills), a pack of frolicsome pets, and what do you get? Mary Poppycock...
Spontaneous Combustion. The neurasthenic students sit through stultifying dinners and spend the rest of their time finding unsettling "clues." But to what? Though the final horror is forestalled, the psychic answer comes halfway through the book. Upset by noises and "arrows" that he thinks he sees in the ceiling cracks, Witold goes out at night, climbs a tree in the front yard and watches the daughter and her husband preparing for bed. On his way back to his room, he strangles and hangs...
Stan Edelson struck me as a very understated man. When he described his production in terms of the highest goals of most of the New Theatre (Open, Free, Living. or Chocolate), it had the effect of a Psychic Pep Talk. He had me up when I walked into the performing area in the Harvard Epworth Church, and his players kept me there (up, that is) for two and a half hours...