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...each other's roles. James Framo, a family therapist in La Jolla, Calif., insists that his patients bring in their parents and siblings to help dig out family-rooted problems. His couples may also take part in group therapy to see how other pairs are coping. Ian Alger, a New York therapist, uses a more novel technique: videotaping couples' visits. Instant replays are often so revealing that some partners begin to resolve their disputes almost immediately. He also lends the tapes to couples for a leisurely review at home. Says Alger: "They look for revealing body language and communications patterns...
Unlike Robby, John Wideman's own life we marked by honors and accolades. At the University of Pennsylvania, John received a four-year Benjamin Franklin scholarship. Years later Wideman admits the irony in his attempt to be self-made man: "I wanted to be Horatio Alger, there seemed to be no limits ... being Black, you had to pretend. I knew I wasn't Horatio Alger and the world wasn't my oyster...
...hybrid that the TV networks call docudramas. These video narratives focus on actual events and real people, but often include invented dialogue, characters and even entire scenes. Dozens of docudramas have been made, on subjects ranging from the history of American slavery, in Roots, to the perjury trial of Alger Hiss in last year's Emmy Award-winner Concealed Enemies. Many have dealt with personalities, living or dead, who still figure in national political debate...
CONCEALED ENEMIES (PBS). Alger Hiss, the alleged spy; Whittaker Chambers, his accuser; and Congressman Richard Nixon, the investigator. These were the true- life protagonists of the year's most intriguing mystery story, deftly dramatized in an American Playhouse miniseries...
Herbst's behavior in connection with the Hiss-Chambers case further demonstrates her growing inability to discern truth. In 1948 Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss of having been a fellow spy in the Communist underground. Herbst was privy to information that partly substantiated Chambers' claim. In fact, as this book discloses, Herbst's husband, in his role as aide to the party's chief recruiter of agents in Washington, first introduced Chambers and Hiss...