Word: psycho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play it safe. Most points are won on errors, not winning shots. Gologor covers a lot of psychological ground: the aggression behind politesse, the times when anger and guilt are useful, the devastating aftereffects of missed opportunities. His courtside manner is casual and unintimidating, his prose free of psycho-jargon. There is, however, a bit too much commercial top spin in the book's title. Sensible Tennis may not be so flashy as Psychodynamic Tennis, but it would be more appropriate...
...truly at the peak of her talent these days. Nobody has done a better characterization of the vacuity of the TV news "personality" −the little moments of makeup-mirror vanity snatched against deadline pressure, the falseness of on-camera performances that must never really look like performances, the psycho logical confusions of pretending to be a real reporter when you know you've been hired because you've got good bones...
...fancier noun for this genre is psychodrama, and Tremblay supplies the "psycho" in liberal portions. The central character, who sits on a stool at center stage, is Serge, a young man about 25 years old who has just returned to Canada from a three-month vacation to Europe. Around him, in their solitary chairs, are his four older sisters, two intolerable, hypochondriac aunts and his father who is so deaf he can barely hear shouts. During the play, Serge confronts the fact that the members of his family have made wrecks of their lives...
Bonjour, La Bonjour. If you are turned on by sophisticated soap opera--psychological drama to use a more intellectual term--go to the Eliot House dining hall, a psycho-drama in itself, and see Bonjour La, Bonjour...
CLARK'S B-MOVIE ORIGINS are obvious in this film. His psycho-killer Black Christmas clearly inspired the lurid murder scenes in Murder By Decree. And while one expects a little blood and weird goings-on in Sherlock Holmes' pursuit of criminals, such attention to violent detail is unnecessary...