Word: psychodrama
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...medieval politics their festive and brutal character. [Such cases] made explicit the universal drama of the fall of man." Watergate had both its grubbiness and its universality. It was a quagmire and a catharsis. It was a mystery story with splendidly bizarre obscurities of plot. It was a national psychodrama, a spectacle of immense power that the Senate committee hearings dramatized as a daytime soap. (Viewers actually called in to the television networks to suggest changes of script or pace, as though they were indeed watching a political serial...
...main struggle of the presidency is being waged with the economic data that pour into the White House. It is also a psychodrama. Reagan's gut tells him that sheer faith will pull the nation through. That cannot be charted...
...date. But double-breasted jackets with padded shoulders, which went out decisively after the '40s, are currently enjoying a big vogue in the very haut-est of designer salons. So, perhaps, Agnes of God might take the theater world by storm and herald the revival of the psychodrama as a popular form...
...fired his manager. Steinbrenner changes managers about as often as most fans change underwear, though he does it with more anguish and bigger headlines. The latest victim was Gene Michael, the eighth Yankee manager in as many years to succumb to Steinbrenner's peculiar style of baseball by psychodrama...
...Zeffirelli and Screenwriter Rascoe resort to such stale devices as flashbacks, hallucinatory episodes and ghostly voiceovers. There is even a moment when the action comes to a halt and, yes, a title song is played while all the actors go moony-faced. About the only cliche of '40s psychodrama movies that is missing is a dream sequence by Dali. If the producers want this one to succeed in today's market, they will have to retitle it. Creature from the Blue Lagoon Meets Ordinary People ought to doit...