Word: psycho
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Heads' music as well. African rhythm stacked up against Motown, and 42nd Street funk against the ozone background musings of Rock Minimalist Brian Eno, all set under lyric passages that seemed like exercises in concretist hysteria. Byrne cooked up a homicidal maniac who talked to himself in French. "Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est" was the refrain of the first big- time song he ever wrote. Funny and frightening, it set the band off on a nicely twisted track...
...campus. The Harvard Film Archive (Carpenter Center, 34 Quincy St.) plans some good and somewhat obscure classics, not to mention horror and animation screenings. Though its located at artsy-fartsy central, most of the classic films have a distinct proletarian and social commentary bent. Among others, Stanley Kubrick's psycho-nightmare The Shining, his apocalyptic satire Dr. Strangelove and an Eastern European animation festival will fill the screens there this summer...
Elvy and Langerman met in what they call their "psycho singles" in Hurlbut. They got along well, despite their different backgrounds, Elvy grew up on a farm in Maryland with his mother, a race car-drive Langerman grew up in the suburbs of Cambridge...
Jordan obviously wants to explore the psycho-sexual import in the myth of lycanthropy. To a certain extent he succeeds. Thus Red Riding Hood, who is played a little too somberly by a lovely Sarah Patterson, and her grandmother, a scary yet whimsical Angela Lansbury, do seem to engender much of the brooding atmosphere with their love of telling haunting stories, "If he's born feet first and his eyebrows meet in the middle...One day he'll meet in the devil in the wood...
...even sherry feed the Quincy elite in the Master's penthouse. The Quincy affairs are as crowded as Lowell Houses, but lack the aura of social restraint caused by the presence of time china and tea services. The only thing missing is a 500 wall stereo blaring "Psycho Killer...