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Bryan chronicles the Mullen's struggle, which soon consumed their lives, and reminds us of the horror of the Vietnam years. He quotes at length from the cold government form letters which responded with hazy platitudes to the Mullens' anguish. At one point, Peg resorted to a dictionary to look up the word "prolong"; she was trying to determine how long it took Michael...
...past, the Ben-Gurion incident was relatively mild; four years ago in the same terminal, members of the Japanese Red Army, allied with the P.F.L.P., killed 28 people. Nevertheless, last week's explosion was one more bloody link in the Middle East's seemingly endless chain of anguish. Another and more important one is the civil war in Lebanon, where almost 20,000 people have been killed in nearly 14 months of inconclusive fighting. That conflict has reached the point where it is considered a quiet day in Beirut when only 30 people are killed. Among last week...
Batches of Babies. The anguish of Viet Nam lingers-for the American families seeking to adopt the children they have come to love, and for an unknown number of Vietnamese parents now seeking to regain custody of children they sent to the U.S. as "orphans" to spare them from a possible bloodbath or starvation. Operation Babylift was created out of humanitarian motives on all sides. Yet it has left a legacy of uncertainty, considerable bitterness-and a legal situation as tangled as the emotions that swirled around the war itself...
...Davis did not draw a clear distinction between his personal views and the substance of the statement submitted to the Faculty Council of the Medical School, of which we were cosignors. We are particularly concerned that the report published in The Crimson last Friday must have caused undue anguish for many of our students who are members of minority groups...
Psychologically, this makes good sense. That the doctor feels the same anguish as her patients, that she knows it's incurable, and that she feels guilty about uncovering the running sores of the soul, then dismissing then in a brisk and cheerful way--all of these are convincing reasons why a seeming model of sanity and success should suddenly break. But Bergman has demonstrated more effective ways of revealing this. The viewer feels so insulted and manipulated by the overexplicit technique of this dream-sequence that he is almost too preoccupied to concentrate on the unfolding story of Jenny...