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...homosexual, but when reading Patrick's lines he sounds more like Henny Youngman (How can one convey pain saying, "I think I'm having an attack of the truth?") Kailani Lee works hard as the frenzied activist, but gets the weakest lines of all; in the middle of a breakdown, she bemoans the loss of "Jimi and Janis...
...John Knutson and Terence Hallinan, left no doubt about their own view of the girl. In a declaration filed with Federal Judge Oliver J. Carter, they declared that she was "a mentally and emotionally disturbed young woman, who is either emerging from or about to fall into a nervous breakdown." In their consultations with her, they said, "she appeared disorganized, flat and listless in her accounts, and vacillating in her attitude toward her parents and lawyers involved in the case. She seemed to have no idea of the gravity of her position." They said she often sat staring into space...
...conditions exist in most industrialized nations. But in the U.S. they are especially intense and combined with particularly American elements that have almost become cliches: the loosening of many moral and social restraints on all kinds of behavior in an increasingly lax society; the decline of tradition and the breakdown of the family; the mobility of American life that so often turns into rootlessness; the U.S. frontier culture of violence and its still lingering love affair with guns?the litany can go on and on. But finally the problem of why the U.S. has so many kooks, and the lack...
...Republic has gone from privilege to fad. Chinoiserie is the rage of the boutique. Indeed, in the situation ethics of detente, when President and Premier could chat like old comrades, it seems churlish to recall that the Communist takeover of China once precipitated something close to a national nervous breakdown...
...figures still have not been audited, Colt said, adding that he cannot release the breakdown of gifts from foundations, corporations, and private individuals until after the Corporation reviews the figures next Monday...