Word: addictive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dr. Manfred Joshua Sakel, 57, Austrian-born U.S. psychiatrist, originator of insulin shock treatment for schizophrenia; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1927, while treating a famed European actress who was a diabetic and drug addict, Dr. Sakel accidentally administered an overdose of insulin, was amazed to see her craving for morphine subside. Theorizing on the correlation between physical and mental illnesses, he went on to try his overdoses on alcoholics and schizophrenics; in both cases the patients improved...
Adapted from Michael Gazzo's hit play, the film is compassionately directed by Fred Zinnemann. As a courageous woman preferring the truth, no matter how grim, to uncertainty, no matter how disguised, Eva Marie has her best role since her Oscar-winning role in On the Waterfront. Addict Murray conquers with restraint-a happy departure from the screaming-meemie interpretation so often accorded the junky's part. To the end, Rain is true to its unflinching credo. The odds seem to be against the emancipation of an addict with one relapse already on his record. Rain abates with...
...state penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, where he is serving a life sentence for bludgeoning his wife to death three years ago, 35-year-old Dr. Sam Sheppard was told that a 23-year-old convict and drug addict named Donald Wedler had confessed to the crime in Florida, and that a lie detector test indicated he was telling the truth. Unemotional at the news-24 other persons have signed similar "confessions"-Dr. Sam nevertheless agreed for the first time since the slaying to take a lie detector test himself. Shown a picture of Wedler, he said he had a "vague...
...wounded buddy. His reward: the Silver Star and a dose of malignant malaria. For the skull-shattering headaches that accompany the first bouts of fever, medics prescribe morphine; and by the time the malaria appears to be gone, so is Barney's moral resistance. He is an abject addict. But why? The script states explicitly the physiological basis of his addiction, but about the psychological causes it can only hem and haw: "The roar of the crowd ... is quite a narcotic . . . but morphine is a bad substitute...
...filed suit two weeks ago for $5,000,000 damages against United Artists and Essaness Associates on grounds that the advertising for the picture depicts him as an unregenerate drug addict...