Word: shrink
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...opening of the trial of the Chicago Eight, a courtroom extravaganza that may shrink the limits of political dissent...
...argues that the board's fallible members frequently misjudge how much to expand or shrink the money supply, and that their actions often exaggerate the swings of an economy that they are supposed to stabilize...
...Ginsberg begins with a Pascal epigraph, but on his own he produces bromides: "Why am I telling you all this?"; "I hate men, they degrade you for being a female"; "I crave nothingness . . . not to die, to live! To become! To find myself!" The stars complement the dialogue. The shrink should be dosed with adrenaline; Torn plays him as if he were shot with Novocain. Sally Kirkland, the Susan B. Anthony of the new nudity, mercilessly displays a Vogueish figure that looks more erotic dressed than undressed. Viveca Lindfors, like her fellow supporting players, adopts the familiar rock musicians...
...What I think about when I can't sleep is the war I can't see or feel. People die and I live oblivious. What do I do? Go to a shrink or go to a doctor and ask him to find out what's wrong with me as I tell him where to look and make up things that I don't feel. Do I tell him with honesty that I just don't want to go into the Army to fight this war? Then am I chicken and will they scoff at me? Will I be affected...
...when he had had such an intense religious experience before, and thinks of the time he "was introduced to the Viennese School of Fantastic Realism. I was with a Capricorn-Aries in his meditation room. I asked him if he had any... examples of this school of art." The shrink points to a bare wall and says yes, "It is called the Door to nowhere...