Word: schizoid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small soda shop, complete with three tattered barstools, and "oldies" juke box and an empty cigarette machine: its general bleakness is dimly lit by a purple noon glow. Here, in the black heart of the Brooklyn werehouse district, on a December night in 1962, a German immigrant shopkeeper, a schizoid ghetto youth and a Jewish NYU coed encounter each other and, in the course of two hours (the action is continuous), slowly, painstakingly post off the one another's marks, wrestling out each other's hidden guilts...
...with secretarial work. Although the real Jacson never admitted to any motive for the murder, he is widely believed to have been a Stalinist agent. In the film, however, Losey makes a sonorous attempt to turn the murder into an oblique existential tract and the assassin into a schizoid avenging angel. Like characters in such previous and more estimable Losey films as The Servant and Accident, Jacson is a scarred and desperate man, searching a psychic void for some small sign of life. When he whispers to his police captor, hoarsely but triumphantly, "I killed Trotsky," it becomes...
...other words, exactly what San Franciscans have come to expect of their opera. The company's tradition goes back to a genially schizoid Italian named Gaetano Merola who founded it back in 1923. Merola was schizoid in that, though he favored Italian opera, he would have little to do with Italian musicians. "The Italians never come on time," Merola would grumble. "Give me the Germans. They are prompt, orderly, reliable." One of the most prompt, orderly and reliable "Germans" was Kurt Adler. A Viennese immigrant, Adler reached San Francisco as chorus director in 1943, after five years...
...century. Surely, however, the legend could not have been as turgid or as invincibly dull as the film that has been fashioned from it. The film makers, making a wild scramble for contemporary relevance, have chosen to frame the story with a singularly absurd yarn about a schizoid evangelist (also portrayed by Miss Ullmann) who believes she is Pope Joan. "Classic case of withdrawal," mutters Psychiatrist Keir Dullea, peering at her through huge spectacles...
...Kenneth Ullman and Robert Groh base their warning on studies of 36 patients who came to the Washington Hospital Center emergency room in a disoriented, schizoid state. Urinalysis revealed that ten of the patients had been taking nonprescription sleeping pills, and the doctors have little doubt that scopolamine, a key ingredient in many such preparations, was responsible for their psychotic behavior. Seven of the patients had intentionally overdosed themselves with up to 50 pills in attempts at suicide. Most improved when given injections of physostigmine salicylate, a drug that counteracts scopolamine...