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...were suited up like Roman combatants to hype interest in their June 15 bout. The idea for the gladiator getup came from Fight Promoter Jerry Perenchio, who borrowed two outfits that had been used in MGM's 1959 film Ben Hur. Perenchio's costuming may be entirely apt, but his choice of battleground is far from Rome. Foreman and Frazier will square off at the Coliseum all right-the one in Nassau County...
...result of a broken hip suffered during an oil-refinery explosion in Philadelphia last October). He also talks tough; in his 1971 "law-'n'-order" campaign, he called his opponents "bleeding hearts, dangerous radicals, pinkos and faggots." In certain respects, to be sure, the comparison is hardly apt. Rizzo, who favors costly conservative clothes, looks less like Archie than like Spiro Agnew, and enjoys good liquor and luxuries of all kinds. He and his rarely seen wife rule over a big, expensive house in fancy Chestnut Hill (Rizzo denies persistent reports that he spent...
...another cashing-in on the spate of the thirties films that did so well at the box office, turned out to be much more complex and intelligent than anyone expected. Beneath the precise atmospheric touches (the right clothes, the right music, the right slang, etc.) you find an apt and sinister diagram of where the tentacles of power lead. It's a lovely new interpretation of the American pioneerism: John Huston's Noah Cross serves as one of the more indelible and paradigmatic characters in recent movies. He singlehandedly demystifies the American dream. The connection he embodies between incest, political...
...most pervasive aspect of the disease is denial; anorexics' denial of their hunger, to themselves and to others, is extreme. They deny that they have any emotional or physical problems. While on ritualized and limited diets they are apt to suffer from digestive problems, but they deny they are ill and avoid seeing doctors who might force them to confront their self-starvation...
...patients who come in want to weigh 100 pounds. We're dealing with patients with a stubborn streak and strong will-power. In behavior modification we say, "If you're not good we'll stick the tube down your throat or not give you certain privileges.' Patients have an apt phrase for this--they say they'll eat their way out of the hospital--but that doesn't mean they're straightened out in the head. For the dangerous ones [20 per cent of anorexics], maybe we should develop a drug to stimulate the hypothalmus so they will...