Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lovers. Psychiatrist Szondi knows no way of curing sick genes. But he believes that he can act as a sort of Dorothy Dix of dementia. With a test he has devised, he hopes to spot latent mental illnesses and warn gene-crossed lovers against compounding their illnesses by marriage. The test is made with photographs: a scientifically selected rogues' gallery of insanity...
...them capable of murder. In ordinary use, Szondi says, the test will furnish "an X-ray picture of the psychic structure" of the patient, reveal "the hereditary content of the unconscious." It can also act as a warning to an engaged couple that their choices of pictures reveal latent sick genes so similar that marriage would be dangerous...
...said last week that he is not interested in a cure: he is doing fine and has not been sick in the past twelve years. Between 8,000 and 9,000 people, he reported proudly, have stopped him to say: "Let me hear you tick." Flynn is always happy to oblige...
Drab as it is, indeed, Night Song earns a modest but honorable corner in movie history on two counts. A piece of music is played straight through without cuts or that customary desperate wandering of the camera's eye which suggests that it hates music and is bored sick. And for once a movie set of Carnegie Hall does not look like a set for Dante's Purgatorio sculptured out of Ivory Soap by Norman Bel Geddes. With electrifying effectiveness, it just looks like Carnegie Hall...
...wife, Miss Amy, proceeds to hit the bluejay with a poker. This proves to be an appropriate introduction to the household. Other inmates are the languid and effeminate Cousin Randolph, Jesus Fever's granddaughter Zoo Fever, and Joel's father, Mr. Sansom, who is mysteriously sick and invisible. Joel begins to think maybe he doesn't exist. But in the evening a red tennis ball bumps down the stairs as if it had a life of its own, and rolls into the parlor. That is how he learns that his father is lying upstairs paralyzed, after having...