Word: schizos
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...TREAT A LADY. Playing murder and mental illness strictly for laughs, Actor Rod Steiger (as a homicidal schizo with a closetful of disguises) and George Segal (as a callow New York cop) turn this bizarre suspense story into a telling black comedy...
There is this fella Gus Ferrarri, whose wife is three people: Eloise ("round and sensual"), Rebecca ("wiry"), and Lila ("boneless"). Gus is 45, a 32nd-degree schizo who does not venture outside his New York apartment for 30 months; he is building a room within a room to become "the inside of his own skin." His three-year-old son asks him: "You're Mommy, aren't you?" The answer: "No. Your mommy is dead. Understand that! . . . All the mommies are dead. I am a monster who makes all the mommies die; I am a mommy-murdering monster...
...Werner Henze's complex score was dense without being deep, an anemic, meandering work that undercut rather than underscored the choreography. Nureyev was forced to keep one foot in the classical past while trying to step into the future with the other. It was enough to make a schizo of a choreographer, let alone a Tancredi...
...fact that they are simultaneously labor bureaucrats, politicians, economic planners and corporate executives does not make Histadrut leaders schizo phrenic. In their philosophy of Zionism all conflicts are reconciled. Zionism, though it is socialistic in favoring collective ownership, is also a nationalist movement that does not admit class conflicts within the Israeli community. Thus the Histadrut leaders calmly fix prices and wages in their own enterprises, setting a pattern for all industry, and rarely permit strikes. At the same time they also encourage private investment, aware that it is necessary for the sake of more rapid economic growth...
Lonelyhearts (Dore Schary; United Artists). In the early years of the Depression, a young man named Nathan Weinstein, the manager of a small hotel in Manhattan, suffered a strange and horrible schizo-religious vision. Set down in a slim volume called Miss Lonelyhearts, published in 1933 under the pen name of Nathanael West, his experience was acclaimed as a masterpiece of the peculiar literature of phantasmagoria-a vision of hell on earth, a scream of anguish at the meaninglessness of human suffering...