Word: airings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elbow gliding along toward his test tube rack, but there was nothing he could do about it. He watched as the rack and eighteen test tubes of proteins went into the air and hit the floor. It had seemed so inevitable, even if only for an instant, that he wondered why the girl was all upset. She was almost hysterical...
...said, "Hello, Martin, I'm afraid I have some bad news." The anticipation was making Martin moan, but he managed to say, "Yes?" He knew it was going to happen now; his heart was beating a thousand times a minute, and he was breathing too fast to get air into his lungs; Betty said, "Martin, I'm afraid I can't go out with you next Saturday," but Martin was busy watching the earthworm crawl into the receiver so he just said, "Oh, that's a goddamn lie." Betty gasped and said, "No, Martin, really, this friend is leaving...
...ones who noticed said they could not have asked for a better setting. The scattered buildings of the century-old hospital sit atop a wooded hill, and its prep-school-like appearance is in marked contrast to the dingy institutional air of Massachusetts Mental Health, the other Harvard-staffed hospital where some students go. At McLean, new patients go through a month of "work-up" -sessions with a doctor in which the patient's case is reconstructed in minute detail. After that, a therapist is carefully selected and the patient sees him several times a week...
...greatest frustration was the nagging uncertainty about when they would leave. "It would be even more anxiety-inducing for the doctors to tell you when you were expected to leave," one student said, "since that would become an obsession, but the fact that they left it hanging in the air made you pretty angry sometimes." Otherwise, there were no criticisms of McLean as an institution, with one exception. The student who spent the most time in hospitals and whose mind made the most harrowing trips complained that he was "vegetablized" by tranquilizers. But his experiences elsewhere suggest that his objections...
...Paris) works some interesting cinematic variations on Poe's classic Doppelganger story, but Alain Delon and Brigitte Bardot seem, to put it gently, out of place. The kinetic opening, with Delon running desperately down the street trying to escape from his own suicide, conjures up a proper air of terror that the rest of the vignette cannot sustain...