Word: psychodramas
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When it departs from form, the wedding becomes a psychodrama and what the counterculture called a happening. Its symbolism grows promiscuous. Sometimes the emphasis is political rather than romantic. Earnest couples are known to billboard their environmental interests in the vows so that, say, vigilance against dioxin and acid rain may become part of the conjugal agenda. Such messages turn the wedding into a paid political message or else something like a professional tennis player's shirt, pasted here and there with the logos of products he is paid to advertise...
...change in attitudes." Thus did Democratic Congressman Clarence D. Long of Maryland last week describe the latest act in what has become a lengthy, confusing and important political psychodrama over U.S. involvement in war-torn El Salvador. Long, who is chairman of the 13-member House Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, had just listened to Secretary of State George Shultz express support for what seemed to be a new and more moderate solution to El Salvador's ugly three-year civil...
...months ago, the surreptitiously taped ramblings of Nixon before he went on national television to give up the presidency began circulating among video buffs. They showed the leader of the Western world on the far edge, chattering strangely with television technicians. Had we seen this bit of psychodrama back then, we might have understood the bizarre proceedings better...
...sort of money that purchases the restaurant to make sure that lamb chops stay on the menu, or to settle a grudge with the maitre d'. Steinbrenner's emotional, almost physical inability to leave the Yankees alone produces great psychodrama...
...pitcher that too much money at this age was bad for him. George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees, said when firing manager Gene Michaels, that he felt like "a father scorned." During the strike, Angell explains that "what is going on here...is the same old psychodrama about American fathers and sons, work and play, money and sex and sports which is always being enacted deep within our national unconscious...