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Arian agreed that the plant reacted to several stimuli, but said, "Short of keeping a geiger counter at home, it is the best way" of detecting nuclear radiation...
...flashes of brilliant insight and style. In it, he wrapped his metaphysical bantering around a plot and made his characters real people, not, as in States, participants in a dramatic reading of his half-baked theories about life. When he sprinkles occasional bits of dialogue among the pontifications about "stimuli deprivation" and "the inner self," he displays a mastery of conversation a la soap opera; "I've got to be alone," says he. Perhaps Chayefsky knew what he had wrought, when, after a vintage Hollywood pissing contest with director Russell, he took his name off the credits as screenwriter...
...lost all consciousness of the outer world, and has to be fed intravenously, He never moves or reacts to external stimuli, but sometimes, they tell me, he twitches in a peculiar way as if he is beating time...
Though she allows her tale to veer toward farce, Tyler always checks it in time with the tug of an emotion, a twitch of regret. Morgan's responses are outrageous, but his stimuli are natural. He reminds Bonny of how he used to fear that their baby girls would die: " 'Relax,' you'd say. Remember? But now look: it's as if they died after all. Those funny little roly-poly toddlers, Amy in her Oshkosh overalls-they're dead, aren't they?" His bitter conclusion: "They've dumped their hamsters...
...freezing beyond comprehension but it's perfect, like a big Hollywood production, full of appealing and unbelievable stimuli--too many faces and noises and victories and cameras and rumors and foreign languages and famous people--and too little real stuff like food and warmth and places to sit down. It's impossible to grasp. Watching it on television is easy by comparison...