Word: schizoid
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...test at varying I.Q. levels, and turn out different kinds of artwork. Ragen, 23, who speaks with a Slavic accent, is "almost devoid of concern for others." Danny and Christopher are decent, quiet teenagers, but Tommy, 16, who initiated the enlistment in the Navy, is depressed and has many schizoid characteristics...
Both visual and musical themes insist on stressing the contradictions of middle-American life. Through a contrast between day and night scenes, Demme unfolds the schizoid nature of CB use. Surfacing under a miasma of grays and blues, the CB becomes a sinister force in the town. Rain also showers the darkness, but it dirties as much as it cleanses, recalling Alain Resnais's evocation of the contaminated rain after a nuclear explosion in Hiroshima, Mon Amour. During the day, when the CB appropriates a docile mask, bright sunshine dominates the cinematographer's vision. The soundtrack, too, depicts both sides...
True to the two-sided nature of the leading character, Looking for Mr. Goodbar has a schizoid quality all its own. The first half of the movie eclipses the ensuing 60 minutes in restraint and insight: indeed. Brooks fleshes out Dunn so well that he cannot avoid the unfortunate fate of his concluding scenes smacking of an anticlimax. The film initially focuses on a compelling dynamic at work in the psyche of Dunn, a wrenching struggle between two seperate identities that cannot be accommodated within the fragile limits of her unstable emotions...
...conductor, Deutsche Grammophon; 4 LPs); (Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink conductor. Philips; 4 LPs). Both Böhm and Haitink are generally thought of as orthodox conductors, interested in Brahms' Brahms rather than their Brahms. Yet how different these interpretations are. Böhm almost seems schizoid about these essentially well-adjusted symphonies, as though he could not make up his mind whether the dreamy, expansive Furtwängler or the lean, surging Toscanini were right. No such problems with Haitink. His Brahms bristles with muscle and the knowledge of a certain destination...
...Shavian aphorisms. "I like a man to be true to himself, even in wickedness," he lectures Burgess. If Morell the socialist and Marchbanks the poet are two different masks for Shaw himself, then the playwright was not only complex; in the terms of this production, he emerges as schizoid and asymmetrical...