Word: vincents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Well, Altman's legend will not stand on this little contestant, no matter how much Vincent Canby cheers her on from the sidelines. But chalk it up mostly to Altman's never-failing eye for realism. Because once having chosen this metaphor--a band of bad actors for a generation of gun-slingers--Altman portrays an acting troupe as he knows most of them to be--generally hungover, self-deluding, myth-gobbling and over-rated. So the real question remains: why choose this metaphor in the first place? Maybe Altman just wanted to give his real actors an improvising...
When Norman Vincent Peale wrote his bestselling The Power of Positive Thinking in 1952, he attempted to "demonstrate that you do not need to be defeated by anything, that you can have peace of mind, improved health and a never-ceasing flow of energy." That no doubt remains the basic objective in the current profusion of books offering advice on how to cope with life, but the new authors differ from Peale in the emphasis they place on self-care and psychological detachment. Among the standard themes in the current crop of self-help manuals...
...months battling for her right to die with dignity.* Though the California bill specifically disavows "mercy killing" and allows anyone designated by the patient to rescind the death directive, California's pro-life forces strenuously opposed the measure as the first step toward euthanasia. Said one Democratic assemblyman, Vincent Thomas: "The trend seems to be to get rid of the senile, insane and crippled people. Our next move will be to get rid of everyone...
Veronique, unfortunately, takes this all in stride, as does Claudine Guilmain's directorial tyle. This brings to mind Vincent Canby's interesting remark about this film: [Guilmain], I suspect, made exactly the kind of film she set out to." I'm not so sure Canby communicates exactly what he set out to, but he would probably agree that Guilmain's straightforward and naive realization of a 13 year-old's perspective does produce some very funny moments--a ridiculous dispute in the car, Jean flopping off-balance into a garden chair--without stooping to too much cynicism. But also without...
Some ten years ago, French Psychologists Vincent Bloch and Pierre Leconte showed that laboratory rats forgot how to do certain things if deprived of REM sleep after training. In a similar experiment by Pearlman, a rat that had mastered an intricate system of avoiding electric shocks to get food was deprived of REM sleep and then starved to death when tests were repeated...