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From here, Von Trier fashions a conceit from the juxtaposition of modern psychotherapy and bald psychoanalytic symbols. The couple’s respective reactions to grief—Dafoe’s intellectual distance manifest in his treatment of Gainsbourg, whose psychic pain becomes physical—exaggerate at a...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Antichrist | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

To the soldiers, the kelpers have become known as "bennies," after a British TV character who is a decent, hard-working but thickheaded farmer. When military commanders reportedly banned the sobriquet, the troops quickly devised a new one: "stills," short for "still bennies." The natives, in turn, refer to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falkland Islands: A Melancholy Anniversary | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

No more, apparently. By the society's estimates, there are now some 25,000 dowsers in the U.S., probably as many as there ever have been. Nearly 2,000 of them are card-carrying dowsers, all of whom belong to a group that is now incorporated under Vermont state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Vermont: Is Dowsing Going to the Dogs? | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

He has, though, had more than his fair share of abuse by unscrupulous promoters in recent years. Being the unassuming (and somewhat thickheaded) bear that he is, he has not protested when snatched up by entrepreneurs to be their moneymaking lure. Sears salesmen palm off bogus Poohs on cups, cereal...

Author: By Martha Stewart, | Title: A Musical Milne | 7/21/1972 | See Source »

The implied answer for the frustrated young is to go to the jungle, to the ''People Inside" (the Communists), and fight for justice. Or to go to Communist China "to give their strength and enthusiasm" to "the newest America, the earth's old country, the ancestor'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jungle Tract | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

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