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...Made the Movies. An interesting probe into Alfred Hitchcock with clips of: gruesome murders in Psycho (1960) and Torn Curtain (1966); psychopaths in Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and Frenzy (1972); and suspense in North by Northwest (1959), Saboteur (1942) and The Birds (1963). Hitchcock is the only film director who has consistently sent pulses through film viewers' nervous systems that feel like 1000 kilowatt bursts of electricity--most critics call that "fear" for lack of a better word. Ch. 2, 8 p.m., 1 hour. Repeat...
Only an alchemist can save her. Dobecker interrupts his peacefully numb existence as a low official and his dabbling in mystical sciences when he briefly wins Tockbridge, and suddenly finds himself on film 24. Torn between fascination with her and concern for himself, he slips easily into the world of satanism and grave-robbing, where his familiarity with the occult keeps him in good standing. He eventually bugs the lawyer's confessional and saves Tockbridge's future--that's a happy ending in Washington these days. Having failed to find his philosopher's stone in either politics or his alchemical...
...basis of these chats, Kearns postulates that L.B.J. was torn between his mother and father-with considerable anger and resentment toward both. Johnson's mother was a genteel woman who read Milton and Shakespeare to the young L.B.J. and forced him to take ballet and violin lessons. She saw her husband, a lusty small-time farmer, trader and politician, as a limited, vulgar man, and turned her affection to the young Lyndon in what Kearns calls "an emotional overfeeding that led him to grow up thinking the whole world should accommodate itself to him." But when Lyndon...
...book, tentatively titled "Lyndon Johnson: The Tyranny of Benevolence," presents Johnson as a man torn between humanitarian instincts inherited from his mother and a rigid concept of manhood taught by his father. This personality conflict, Kearns writes, can help explain the guns-and-butter policies of Johnson's presidency...
...does not hesitate to create sentimental scenes: Shura and Alyosha waving to each other as his train pulls away, Alyosha's mother running breathless and perspiring from her work in the fields to greet him. But somehow, in this context, anything less than sentimentality would be unsatisfactory. War has torn a society apart, and for a few brief moments its victims are struggling to recapture a past forever lost, or discover experiences never known. Absent is the business-as-usual optimism of most American films about the Second World War. There is a sense in Ballad of a Soldier that...