Word: straitjacket
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Nabokov's novels, prefaces and discourses drip with scathing references to Freud. His basic objection to Freudian theories is that they slight the creative imagination by putting it in a sexual straitjacket and by insisting that dreams and images are determined mechanistically. "I reject completely the vulgar, shabby, fundamentally medieval world of Freud," he writes, "with its crankish quest for sexual symbols (something like searching for Baconian acrostics in Shakespeare's works) and its bitter little embryos spying from their natural nooks upon the love life of their parents." Nabokov may yet get his wish to see Shakespeare in heaven...
...margin, the court reversed a lower court that had convicted Kelley of indecent exposure for her performance at a San Pablo, Calif., nightclub. "The First Amendment," said the justices, "cannot be constricted into a straitjacket of protection for political expression alone. It extends to all forms of communication, including the highest: the work of art." Moreover, the majority pointed out, "the dance is perhaps the earliest and most spontaneous mode of expressing emotion and dramatic feeling...
Siegel fleshes out this lean plot by taking a long look at low life in Fun City. Using discotheques, squad rooms and pool halls, he creates a tense atmosphere of violence that encloses the action like a straitjacket. Eastwood, who has hitherto displayed nothing more than a capacity for iron-jawed belligerency in a series of Italian-made westerns, performs with a measure of real feeling in the first role that fits him as comfortably as his tooled leather boots...
...find fault in trying to develop a purified style that excludes a lot of possibilities," says Hunt. "The artist's development becomes predictable. He puts himself in a straitjacket." Certainly no one could accuse Hunt of being predictable, yet the 41 works at Milwaukee, created over a ten-year period, betray an artistic progression. Hunt's work has evolved from small, dark, intense, relatively small copper or steel constructions to larger, looser but still eerily vigorous ones in shiny aluminum. Hunt likes the polished effect that comes from disk-grinding the aluminum because "it changes its texture...
...Straitjacket. Though Treasury and Federal Reserve officials deny that any such straitjacket is seriously being considered, private economists back from Washington briefings nevertheless insist that it is. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, they say, has been threatening that the Administration will seek authority for all types of controls if Congress spurns a tax increase...