Word: psychos
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...film's downbeat reception in this country can be squarely blamed on its distributor, United Artists, who somehow saw fit to cut twenty minutes from. Truffaut's version for its American release. Still, a lot of the good is intact, and so are the film's intriguing references to Psycho, Shoot the Piano Player and the works of Jean Renoir, to whom Mississippi Mermaid is dedicated...
Says Dr. Leo Rangell, president of the International Psycho-Analytical Association and clinical professor of psychiatry at U.C.L.A.: "It is difficult to know who is speaking in the book-May the psychoanalyst, May the theologian or May the existentialist." The comment is accurate, because May does speak in all those voices. He has also been trained in all three disciplines...
Gandhi's Truth. which won both the National Book Award and the Melcher Award earlier in the year, is Erikson's psycho-historical inquiry into the origins of Mahatma Gandhi's doctrine of militant non-violence...
Artist Franz Walther will teach adventurous spectators to use his object instruments in space to further self-exploration, and there remains a possibility that environmentalist James Rosenquist will appear to experiment with the psycho-visual-atmosphere. Poetry and prose will be considered on separate evenings by such widely divergent figures as poet-critic-author-cultural hero Stephen Spender (The Year of the Young Rebels), and that flamboyant sports-caster of CBS television-Heywood Hale Broun. The Arts Festival will also feature piano recitals by Joseph Block and Armenta Adams, and will conclude its final weekend with a Quincy House production...
...characters create a mosaic of emotional cross-references, used in turn to bore, startle, perplex, or electrify the viewer. The nature of these icons, which compose the main body of the film's formal statement, is too varied to effectively catalogue here, but includes a great deal of crude psycho-social imagery concerning the fall of idealism since the second World War: the role of women rockets, Hitler, an extra ordinary passage on growing old, and the market in neo-capitalist society, as well as some intense visuals suggestive of the work of Francis Bacon, animated collages of fashion models...