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There are other sides of Byrne's psyche that get play on this album as well. An especially interesting tidbit is a song called "Psycho Killer." This number could well be dedicated to David Berkowitz, with such lines as, "I hate people when they're not polite." Byrne lapses into French on the chorus, just to let us know that our friendly psycho is not dummy...
...hassles and almost all of the amenities of many bigger American cities. As Post-Intelligencer Columnist Emmett Watson remarks, "The people of Seattle, like every place else, are into punk rock, tofu, lifespring, frozen yogurt, est and diet beer. People here are using words like parenting, ambience, trendy and psycho- babble." They also, quite often, are using words like symphony, museum and pro football...
...watching their favorite performers playing new roles. Winkler is surely aware of these potential pitfalls, but he has nonetheless jumped into the fray. In Heroes, a determinedly high-minded movie, he drops his Fonzie mannerisms to play Jack Dunne, a crazy Viet Nam veteran who escapes from a VA psycho ward to traipse across the country and find himself...
Exactly why Long Jr. suffers from such a severe Oedipal complex, as Robert Coles '50 puts it, is a question to be left to the psycho-historians--if they can handle it. What's more necessary is an explanation of why his behavior isn't seen as scandalous by a press and public cognizant of his enormous power. Long's ill-advised positions on issues aside, his influence over laws affecting an industry with which he is personally involved represents, after all, a clear conflict of interest...
ROSEN DESCRIBES in what is frequently excruciating detail the failures of the quacks to resolve the fears and anxieties of the seriously ill. He doesn't stress sufficiently, though, how many failures legitimate" psycho-analysts have had for similar reasons--perhaps because of a too-rigid theory of personality, perhaps an arbitrary and superficial diagnosis; the list is infinite...