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...result, Hospital reads sometimes like 28 characters in search of a plot and sometimes like one collective voice talking to a psychotherapist. Details of depression, marital misery and frustration abound. Medved cites studies indicating that the rate of drug addiction among American physicians is 30 to 100 times that of the general population; 47% of responding doctors reported that their marriages were unsatisfactory, and 13% of male M.D.s said they had sex with patients...
Nothing could be more obvious than the evidence supporting Riesman. Scofflaws abound in amazing variety. The graffiti-prone turn public surfaces into visual rubbish. Bicyclists often ride as though two-wheeled vehicles are exempt from all traffic laws. Litterbugs convert their communities into trash dumps. Widespread flurries of ordinances have failed to clear public places of high-decibel portable radios, just as earlier laws failed to wipe out the beer-soaked hooliganism that plagues many parks. Tobacco addicts remain hopelessly blind to signs that say NO SMOKING. Respectably dressed pot smokers no longer bother to duck out of public sight...
...movie centers on the characters rather than the plot, the latter being quite simple. Even in Salt Lake City, neuroses abound. Most of the characters seem to have been abandoned, left to their own, insufficient, devices. Charles, a civil servant, is confined to his glass cubicle for most of the day. Charles' boss treats him to endless tales of a Dartmouth son--"He wants to be at Harvard, but he couldn't get in"--who is suffering from sexual maladjustment. Then there's the typist Betty, a Ted Kennedy look-alike much enamoured of Charles and salad dip recipes...
...meetings in Moscow, Nixon "sensed" that the Soviet leader was "pained that our exchanges during the October crises had been so tough." The implication lingers that it was Nixon's "toughness" during the crisis following the October 1973 Middle East War that caused U.S: diplomacy to succeed. Other examples abound of anecdotes apparently designed to point up that Nixon himself had the same sorts of qualities of leadership hr praises in others...
...mock irritation, WHAT A PERSONAL COMPUTER CAN DO? The ad provides not merely an answer, but 100 of them. A personal computer, it says, can send letters at the speed of light, diagnose a sick poodle, custom-tailor an insurance program in minutes, test recipes for beer. Testimonials abound. Michael Lamb of Tucson figured out how a personal computer could monitor anesthesia during surgery; the rock group Earth, Wind and Fire uses one to explode smoke bombs onstage during concerts; the Rev. Ron Jaenisch of Sunnyvale, Calif, programmed his machine so it can recite an entire wedding ceremony...