Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...approaches Strang's case. In the figure of the disturbed boy, Dysart has run up against a patient who matches his own forceful character, yet can identify Dysart's very unique weaknesses with all the insight of one of the psychiatrist's professional colleagues. Strang senses the sexual and emotional impotence of his putative healer, using his instinctive acumen as a weapon to retaliate against Dysart's incursions into his own psyche. Strang's special qualities compound the difficulty of the shrink's task; the adolescent's mercurial nature furnishes a painful counterpoint to his doctor's sterile intellectualism. Strang...
...phrase also conveys "an excellent sexual connotation" since sexual curiousity impels one to take a chance and accept a blind date. But Kosinski twists the sexual implications of a blind date in his book, using the term to describe a rape technique Levanter learns as a teenager...
...Blind Date adds to the fuel of those who criticize Kosinski for the insensitive treatment of women in his novels. Told from Levanter's viewpoint, the rape becomes a justifiable act, the logical culmination of his lust. Elsewhere in the novel, female characters seldom rise above the status of sexual playmates to which Levanter, and presumably Kosinski, relegates them...
...deux. In bed, Marina put Lee down mercilessly for his premature ejaculations and deliberately aroused his pathological jealousy by praising her past boy friends or her current pinups. One of Marina's revelations to McMillan is that she provoked Lee's fury with talk of her sexual attraction for Kennedy. It may well have been one reason why Lee's free-floating rage finally settled on the President. That is a compelling notion - more so than many of the conspiracy theories that depersonalize Oswald by pointing to some cold-blooded organization with a hired gun. The truth...
Stop the World remains offensive to this day, in its use of sexual and national stereotypes and in its heavy-handed symbolism. (The "Figure of Death," dressed in a long black robe, drops in every now and then to disrupt the circus-like goings on.) It is a hard show to like for its own sake. But the current Mather House production succeeds in making Stop the World both enjoyable and ultimately moving, in spite of itself...