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Comic strip is one of the terms critics have used for the Ken Kesey counter-culture novel that inspired One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest. Big Nurse, Billy Bibbet, Randell McMurphy--zip, zam, zowee-am, swoosh, but with a heavy psycho-social punch packed behind it all. Yet the first shots of Milos Forman's movie--grainy, solemn, self-consciously non-colorful--make clear that this Cuckoo will not foist off a super-super allegory of a nut-fram, but a real Oregon mental hospital, in all its disturbing bleakness and isolation. This interpretive risk pays off, and, except...
...work which pulled these concern together, This is the Story of Woman Who... (1973), presented changing tableaus of a man and woman in domestic settings. A third observer and projected slides with printed text supplied narration. Alternating with the script were stills from Hitch-cock's Psycho, photos from the performers' family albums, and snaps of familiar landmarks. Rainer included "Trio A" from The Mind is a Muscle along with references from other earlier works--a red ball, books, a gift, mattresses. (She conveniently schematizes these motifs in an appendix, "Etymology of objects, configurations and characters...
...Psycho, 5:40, 9:20 and Pretty Poison, 4, 7:40, ends today...
...relatively new field of psycho-biography is already cluttered with dismal studies such as Freud and Bullitt's Thomas Woodrow Wilson. Twenty-Eight President of the United States. In that text the authors explain the U.S.'s decision to go to war against Germany in 1916 as a function of Wilson's urge to satisfy charges of libido while pleasing his Superego. Others, like the Georges' study of Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House, are much more subtle; they present the subject's boyhood background and then use psychological imprints as keys to understanding formerly inexplicable courses of action in later...
...more importantly, this work exposes the tragic flaws of using psycho-biographical analysis to explain presidential decision-making. The psychological model dictates that his mother trained him to help the meek; but the political model--far more cogent when it comes to explaining this consummate politician's behavior--dictates that he pushed for civil rights programs to gain black votes. In this case as in others, the psychological model is only one of several ways to explain presidential decision making, and often the least important...