Word: yossarianic
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Something Happened is an extremely despairing novel, worth reading because it presents an astute observation on the effects of the corporate state upon individuals. It presents an island of the mind overcome by the enemy within oneself, just as Yossarian was threatened by both Americans and Germans in Catch-22. Heller deserves his homecoming after his long journey from Pianosa and he's entitled to recognition...
...confounds authority, the sophistry of law and the mindless brutalities of bureaucracy with sheer simplicity and obdurate truth. In the endless flux of empires, ideologies and wars, he is the irreducible survivor. Such a one was Voltaire's Candide, Cervantes' Sancho Panza, Joseph Heller's Yossarian-and Jaroslav HaŠek's Good Soldier Švejk...
Like some latter-day Yossarian. Retired Army Colonel Edmund Castle last week told a Senate investigating subcommittee of his final battle. His enemy was a perfumed, persistent Vietnamese entrepreneur named Madame Phuong, whose friends included some of the U.S. officers and service club noncoms under investigation by the Senate panel (TIME, March 8). Assigned to the massive 25-sq.-mi. Long Binh supply depot as post commander in 1968, Castle discovered that Brigadier General Earl F. Cole, a deputy chief of staff at the depot, had authorized Mme. Phuong to open an on-post steam bath and massage parlor. Cole...
...Karen Black's performance and a scene where Jack Nicholson sits down to play the piano in Rafelson's Five Easy Pieces, a slick film about alienation which seemed to cut away to a Laszlo Kovacs Easy Rider scenic vista whenever something seemed about to happen; Alan Arkin's Yossarian in Mike Nichols' Catch-22; Carrie Snodgress's heroine and Frank Perry's paranoiac camera work in the somewhat overdrawn Diary of a Mad Housewife; Charles Bronson's headstrong investigator in Rene Clement's Rider on the Rain; the dripping decadence and provocative idea behind Performance; and the grand style...
Theoretically, a severed cat's brain might be educated to recognize and respond to a set of optical impulses and transmit signals to guide a missile onto its target. Or, cheaper still, a cat called Yossarian might be trained to twitch a certain muscle if a target he had learned was not centered on the cross hairs...