Word: obsessionals
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Some variation of this philosophy rests behind most of Roth's and Elkin's best work: The worst is yet to be, so watch out. The disasters that befall Roth heroes are chiefly sexual; well-educated, pampered men, they try to be moral and high-minded while writhing...
BAD TIMING/ A SENSUAL OBSESSION Directed by Nicolas Roeg Screenplay by Yale Udoff
In the recounting, this glum and familiar little tale of obsession worked out in an act of paltry vengeance sounds thin and narrow. And so it is, at bottom. But the story is told mainly in a jumble of quick-cut flashbacks as the man waits in the hospital to...
IT'S POSSIBLE that no dramatist of similar stature could match the sexual activity of Frank Wedekind; it was characteristic of him that he would bring this personal obsession to the stage. "His greatest work," Brecht eulogized, "was his own personality." Wedekind was the first playwright of the polymorphous perverse...
But, like Hitler's 1000-year Reich, it ran out of steam long before anybody expected. Where American ideals and ideas once inspired millions worldwide with hope for the future, the nation now perceives itself as spiritually bankrupt and narcissistic. As the obsession with the gilded past and tragic future...