Word: psycho
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be as good as anybody's in the general melee that would follow an Eisenhower retirement. As governor of the largest Republican state, he expects to go to the 1956 G.O.P. convention with 70 strategic favorite-son votes in his hip pocket. He will have the added psycho logical advantage of playing host to the convention in his own backyard, at San Francisco's Cow Palace. And if Ike does choose to run - well, the 70 votes might possibly be parlayed into a vice-presidential nomination. In any case, Goodie could wait. He had played a waiting...
...teenagers, recorded in an RCA album, and put on film. It takes Dr. Coué's famous autosuggestive jingle ("Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better") and puts it in 3-D. The added dimensions: religion and psychology. The book is filled with "psycho-spiritual" advice that makes personal salvation a kind of do-it-yourself project. Samples...
...just a second run through Private Hell 36. The plots are almost identical, but there is one important difference. Edmund O'Brien, as the cop, goes sour for so little money ($25,000) that the audience can hardly believe it until somebody explains that he is "probably psycho." The climax comes in a chase through a swimming pool and into the girls' locker room, with the air full of hard bullets and soft flesh-a scene that may make moviegoers wonder if Actor O'Brien, who also helped to direct the picture, meant to outrage their better...
...drove her husband out of the house, and Mr. Runyon drove his wife to drink. None of this did Damon Jr. or his older sister any good. The sister had a nervous breakdown and Damon Jr. became an alcoholic. By 23, he had been through the D.T.s, jails and psycho wards before getting cured via Alcoholics Anonymous. In Father's Footsteps, Damon Jr., now 36 and a Miami newspaperman, gives his version of why Damon Sr. was everything a father should...
...soon as the action is underway, but instead is followed through down to the last guilt complex. The audience is shown a sodium amytal treatment, a flashback to the patient's youth ("You see, his father and mother quarrelled..."), the patient falling in love with his beautiful young psycho-analyst, and, as a grand climax, the paient curing the psycho-analyst, of her psychosis...