Word: obsessionals
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Molière was a foe of zealotry, and an apostle of moderation. He regarded the extremist as society's sickest man. Each of his better plays is a kind of psychosocial profile of a man with a raging obsession, a feverishly disordered imagination. He may be a hypocrite...
As long as he maintains this joyously aimless style, as long as the three characters are one amorphous, abstract, triple-headed Husband, the film works as an impressionistic comedy. But somewhere around the middle of the film, Cassavetes becomes dissatisfied with mere drunken clownishness, and he tries to turn his...
Kandinsky and Moholy-Nagy, the carriers of the Constructivist obsession with space, were the major proponents of Soviet ideas in the Bauhaus. From Russian stage design followed the Bauhausler Oskar Schlemmer, and from Tatlin's chess table and Rodchenko's functional chairs came Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona chair...
Playmen started out to imitate Playboy, although more prudently: the first Girl of the Month held her hands over her bosom. But in the last year or so, Playmen has taken on a style and candor of its own. Playmen's nudes are women, not girls, and rather normal...
Miller's Hamlet begins with the second scene of Act I, at Claudius's speech, "Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death/the memory is green..." The justification for this is that the opening scene is unnecessary, since the ghost turns up again, anyway, and the scene does not...