Word: psycho
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pepper this psycho-sexual stew with a generous dose of True West mythos (lassos, gunracks, motel notells), an ensemble cast as good as they get, honkytonk lovesongs and sets designed by Levi-Strauss, and you've got yourself a bowl of three-alarm movie-making...
...therefore dangerously close to the welfare system in that it can, under certain circumstances, retard disiplined group reliance and initiative. The second reality-avoidance strategy seems to find its most pathological expression among black males. Diagnostically speaking, interracial mating is for many elites an individual act of existential and psycho-cultural expatriation. Accordingly, it frees one from confronting certain unpleasant realities. In this context this means escaping from perhaps the most painful and historically complex aspect of blackness: the quality of life between black men and women. On this delicate subject it may be presumed that reasonable individuals may differ...
...approach--notably MacKinnon, a lawyer and professor of political science, and co-author of the MacKinnon-Dworkin bill--use the same evidence to argue that a critical causal tie exists between the image and the reality. Pornography's presence perpetuates pornographic minds and violent behavior, MacKinnon argues, relying on psycho-sociological studies...
Enter the Senator (Tony Curtis), who badgers the scientist about attending a Congressional hearing. Curtis plays his role to the hilt and turns in an energetic performance in his most substantial part in years. Nevertheless, the part is all wrong, torpedoed by amateur psycho-speculation about the Commie basher's alleged impotency...
...route to Einstein on the Beach, had opened the wrong studio door and stumbled onto Soul Train. It was, however, the release of a superb 1984 performance documentary movie, Stop Making Sense, and a sound-track album that marked the band's biggest breakthrough so far. Talk about psycho killers. Byrne showed up in his humongous, gleaming, wide-shouldered white suit, did a fancy two-step with a floor lamp, and the band played all its best-known tunes. Byrne may have looked, at first, like Anthony Perkins getting ready to swab the bathroom floor at the Bates Motel...