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...physical symptoms in three age groups--preschoolers, young school-age children and adolescents. Among preschoolers, the signs include frequent, unexplained stomachaches, headaches and fatigue. Depressed school-age children frequently weigh 10 lbs. less than their peers, may have dramatic changes in sleep patterns and may start speaking in an affectless monotone. Adolescents go through eating disorders, dramatic weight gains or losses, promiscuity, drug abuse, excessive picking at acne, and fingernail biting to the point of bleeding...
...sight of a dead body. In some of his other people there's a passivity that is no less unnerving. You see it in his picture of Irma Twiss Epstein, a nanny accused of killing a child in her care, whose weird serenity is the precursor of the affectless stare that fascinated Arbus...
...fiercely told story. Smith and his actors catch the stunned manner of a culture that thinks postmodernism is a synonym for postemotionalism. They're always trying to be coolly affectless about hotly affecting issues, hoping blunt, acceptant talk about sexual congress will disarm the subtle pains it always implies. This is a newer, more interesting form of innocence than the '50s kind, and when their true feelings burst through, their breakdowns and breakups are really scary. Like Inventing the Abbotts, this movie knows that the questing phallus is the main source of youthful romantic angst. But Chasing Amy doesn...
...male lovers in the past. This devastates Holden and wrecks both relationships. "It?s a sad and fiercely told story," notes Schickel. "Smith and his actors catch the stunned manner of a culture that thinks postmodernism is a synonym for postemotionalism. They?re always trying to be coolly affectless about hotly affecting issues, hoping blunt, acceptant talk about sexual congress will disarm the subtle pains it always implies." BOOKS . . . BEAR AND HIS DAUGHTER: Robert Stone?s fans have had to content themselves, so far, with the five novels that he has published sporadically over the past 30 or so years...
...male lovers in the past. This devastates Holden and wrecks both relationships. "It?s a sad and fiercely told story," notes Schickel. "Smith and his actors catch the stunned manner of a culture that thinks postmodernism is a synonym for postemotionalism. They?re always trying to be coolly affectless about hotly affecting issues, hoping blunt, acceptant talk about sexual congress will disarm the subtle pains it always implies." BOOKS . . . BEAR AND HIS DAUGHTER: Robert Stone?s fans have had to content themselves, so far, with the five novels that he has published sporadically over the past 30 or so years...