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...upcoming case in court, the doctors publicized their contention that Milligan had multiple personalities. That tactic proved an error; newspapers and get-tough advocates immediately went berserk. Milligan, they said, was faking his disorder (though other psychiatrists had since confirmed it); the young man, they argued, was simply adept at putting on 24 different acts (though sophisticated tests actually proved him to have dramatically different IQs and values when dominated by different personalities). And, as Keyes laboriously shows, his personalities were diverse...
Because possession changes hands whenever a pass is intercepted or the Frisbee hits the ground, Ultimate Frisbee is a fluid, transition game. Players are ostensibly in good physical condition and adept at all phases of the game--throwing, catching, running offense and defense...
...patriotic Egyptian was to end British occupation. Sadat thus became an underground revolutionary and befriended German agents, whom he viewed primarily as the enemies of England and thus his allies. Later, he would condemn Nazi policies wholeheartedly...and convince most that the meant it. Yet Sadat was adept at insincerity--as evidenced by his adventures in and out of prison during and just after the war. How to judge wherein lies the truth...
...jurors were under 24, all singles who had been living at home with their parents, and they naturally formed a social group. They invented a cocktail they called the "Pontiac" (Amaretto and soda with a twist of lime). They held occasional mock trials at which one of them proved adept at imitating the lawyers involved in the case. On April Fools' Day, Linda Tumino, 21, hid in the back of the sheriffs bus and caused a momentary panic among the deputies when they found themselves missing one juror. "All it was was party, party, party," complains...
This deafness to overtone is especially disappointing because Weir, in Hanging Rock and The Last Wave, showed himself to be particularly adept at suggesting, with force and economy, the resonances in ordinary-seeming events. Perhaps he was overwhelmed by the scale of this project, for one senses throughout that he is pulling back to the safely particular rather than straining forward toward a more daring grandeur. Well acted and, within its limited terms, well made, Gallipoli represents a failure of nerve as well as design. -By Richard Schickel