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Pagnolmania the French call their long love affair with the author-auteur (he died in 1974). That benign affliction was rekindled last year with the European release of My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle. This summer the two-film magical memory tour comes to American screens. Rapture is the only appropriate response...
...Children's Hospital, says that jogging alone would be unlikely to provoke such a condition in a regular runner like Bush. "It can happen at that age just spontaneously," he said. "Whether it means there is an underlying problem, I really rather doubt it. Atrial fibrillation is really a benign condition...
Various groups follow a mixed brew of Wicca (witchcraft), paganism, New Age ideas and evocations of female power, some inspired by Native American and African traditions. Though a minority enacts malevolent spell casting and magic (not Satanism, these worshipers insist), most embrace benign beliefs, especially harmony with nature. While some draw upon ancient rituals, others invent new ones...
...strategy can spark enormous anxiety in children and their parents. One boy was so depressed at his high cholesterol reading that he refused to join friends at picnics and beach parties. Says Dr. Abraham Bergman of the University of Washington, who has studied the psychological toll on youngsters of benign heart murmurs and sickle-cell trait: "Children pay a price for being labeled." There is concern too that overzealous parents will put their offspring on overly stringent diets that can deprive them of essential calories and nutrients and stunt their growth...
Kaufman claims he had nothing to do with the fracas. He insists that he was holed up in a nearby hotel room -- and in constant cellular telephone contact with the picket line -- for a benign purpose: boning up for an appearance as a guest commentator on local television and radio news programs that night. One of the pickets allegedly boasted that "me and Kaufman really screwed up the convention." He later said the comment was just a joke...