Word: shrinkly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bone), is, unfortunately, a model of what playwrights should avoid. It's a slim but labored farce about a young man (Andrew McCarthy) who can't make love without having his father's socks around and the psychiatrist (Edward Herrmann) who has taken them away. The stale shrink jokes wouldn't pass muster on an average episode of Seinfeld, not to mention Shanley's own better work, like his flavorful screenplay for Moonstruck. What Hollywood gave Shanley was discipline--and Cher...
...really wish you hadn't done that to us. You don't know what scars you ignited. Deep within an out gay person is the buried anxiety to hide, to cover up, to shrink from being oneself--left over from a time when that's what life was about. That's what you stirred in me. You made me nervous to be out and gay on my own campus. You made me anxious to crawl back to the comfort of my own car and to my own room to be gay in peace. At the table you made...
...children of the clinical age, and the ADD phenomenon is a very concrete and democratic example of this fact. While the shrink and the quack are psychiatric types confined to a certain cross-section of society--types that have been vigorously caricatured in Hollywood movies--no one is making light of ADD, a phenomenon which directly affects far more people from all walks of life...
...between Farrow and Allen. They talked four or five times a day, and even used light and mirror signals to communicate across Central Park--he lived on the east side, she on the west. But things were still tricky: "There were three of us in the relationship: Woody, his shrink and me. He didn't even buy sheets without talking...
...attention to newspaper comic strips. He sees Superman as "something out of Nietzsche and vaguely associated with Nazi theories of a master race." But in the same strip he is able to see the positive side to this American absurdity: "I sensed America's ability to domesticate menace and shrink giants...