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The wheel of assimilation turns inexorably: Scratching out an existence is phase one, maniacal studying is phase two, sports is phase three.
The Darger watercolors on exhibit include both peacetime tableaux of tiny lassies, some naked, some in dresses, disporting themselves among butterflies and enormous flowers and odd little birds--and scenes of maniacal carnage, in which the same tiny lassies are strangled naked (distorted faces, tongues stuck out) and disemboweled by merciless Glandelinians.
Both men are noted risk-takers and cutting-edge improvisers whose penchant for the maniacal makes them ideal partners" (Karl Stark, the Philadelphia Inquirer ). Gene Seymour writes in Newsday that "there's a sense of play between the two that's almost kinda sweet.
Trying to explain how he made the leap from (in Lewis' words) "thirty-eight-year-old unsuccessful college professor with a warning label on his forehead to a founder of a multibillion-dollar corporation," Clark says he developed "this maniacal passion for wanting to achieve something . I guess it was a little bit of self-imposed psychology."
Many of the recent life and work recaps emphasize Kubrick's famous idiosyncrasies: 1) his reclusiveness (though Time 's Richard Schickel was apparently an intimate); 2) his obsessiveness (he was known, wrote Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times , to call projectionists personally and complain about how his film was being shown in a particular theater); and 3) maniacal attention to detail (scores of takes were the norm).
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