Word: psycho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stressing that the findings were only preliminary, Charles H. Henneken, assistant professor of Medicine, said he plans a more extensive study of the effects of "psycho-social" variables in producing heart attacks in elderly men. Coffee consumption, obesity, cigarette smoking, high blood pressure, prior heart disorder and high cholesterol counts are all common risk factors, Henneken added...
...Albee's plays should be protected from the efforts of well-meaning regional theaters. Relying upon sensitive emotional portrayals for their impact they too often fall prey to overblown actors who careen their way mindlessly through an evening of moral reproach and abuse. Even the most inveterate lover of psycho drama will find himself wishing that someone would simply draw a gun and cut short the agony. If Albee were there he would do it himself...
...most exciting point of the evening came when a crowd of about 50 people gathered behind the banks of television cameras to watch the famed "shower scene" from Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho." aired on a local television station...
...supplies dialogue to explain that the hero is "surmounting the obstacles of middle age . . . [by] leaping above the paraphernalia of middle-class life." In The Five-Forty-Eight, a dance of death between a married man (Laurence Luckinbill) and his jilted lover (Mary Beth Hurt), the story's psycho logical suspense is gutted by a string of clumsy nightmare and flashback sequences. Were it not for the fine, anguished performances of Murphy and Hurt, the final two shows would have no more meaning or passion than the first. Even so, they are not powerful enough...
...Furthermore, the snarling, guttural singing style of the group's lead singer--Mr. David Byrne--along with the hypnotic, repetitious, electronically treated music the group provides, could provoke listeners with extant mental imbalances to acts of violent destruction. The same group, in fact, performed a song called "Psycho Killer" on an earlier album...