Word: schizoid
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...readers ever since its publication 60 years ago, was flirting dangerously with calamity. After all, a novel that speaks in a quiet adult voice, and that proceeds from delicate ironies to the contemplation of metaphysical mysteries, is not your customary movie property. That Lean has brought this essentially schizoid work to the screen with such sureness, elegance and hypnotic force is akin to a miracle...
...with his young son (Hunter Carson). Now Travis goes searching, with the boy in tow, for his long-lost wife (Nastassja Kinski). Welcome to the new West, pardner, where the myth of the loner is yoked to the grail of domestic reconciliation. No wonder Paris, Texas is as powerfully schizoid as its title: German director (Wim Wenders), American screenwriter (Sam Shepard), the clashing strategies of an international cast. With his gorgeous, precise images of the American Southwest, Wenders suggests a cinematic landscape artist forced by the moneylenders to add some human figures to the picture. Their motivations refuse to parse...
...younger generation is really schizoid. They have fought for issues, but a lot of them rolled off in the '70s. If you can get someone who appeals to their beliefs, their idealism, you can move huge numbers of them. On that hangs the future of the Democratic Party...
...secret that I've always been a tough teacher for legitimate, pedagogical reasons, so there's always been apprehension about me, long before my work on TV." And he adds with a smile. "But I think I'm lightening up. Anyone who sees me in class knows I'm schizoid. Beneath the surface there's a sort of gnome--someone fairly human...
...picaresques (such as Dead Souls) the distance traveled is insignificant and indeed pointless. His monologue, punctuated only by the names of train stations along the Moscow-Petushki line, lurches into and out of reality like a rusty zoom lens. Sometimes whispered confession, sometimes giddy rhetoric, it continually breaks into schizoid dialogue, accosting the reader as an ill-at-ease fellow-traveler and involuntary confidant...