Word: obsessionals
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The power of this picture is the power of the nightmare. The spectator is locked in the sinister bunker like Germany in its obsession, and the end is less an exit than a cure. Actor Skoda, for all the impacted passion of his playing, never really gets the number of...
All Ranges & Registers. Jenny's teacher is an intense, grizzled, German-born man named Alfred Wolfson, 59, who made his living after World War I as a remedial voice trainer, fled to London after Hitler took power, and there developed a theory that is now almost an obsession. "Man...
In this story of "war as mean as poor-farm soup." one character suffers a case of hysterical blindness. This too befell William March, though not until years after the war. It was after he recovered that he wrote Company K, and he never entirely lost what Cooke calls the...
A large segment of the American reading public has the peculiar obsession to "get inside" somebody--anybody--to see "what makes 'em tick." This urge has sent thousands of readers to book stores in order to buy monodies on everyone from a nondescript called something-or-other to a precocious...
Miro traces his imagery back to the Romanesque frescoes of his native Catalonia and the influence of his teacher Urged who left him with an obsession for the red circle, the moon, and the star. To these can be added other sources of inspiration. From Cubism, Art Nouveau, Surrcalism, he...