Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hero and heroin of "It's Really Me" arelearning to deal with the newly-found frustrationand feeling of insecurity in the real world, withmore than a little help from their friends. Thehero survives a suicide attempt and a brief jailsentence to overcome his despair at the happyending...
...brief dramatic pause--the roommates speak...
...movie's few flirtations with the Halloween genre are handled economically and gracefully--the psychiatrist/investigator, the macho-hero-in-pursuit, the hardboiled reporter, and the renegade cop all have their moment as they rotate around the central character. There's even a brief humorous romance for Daughter Number Two, and Shelley Hack, ex-Charlie's Angel, makes a successful shift from feathered hair and bellbottoms to mid-urban motherhood...
...dispute will heat up shortly, when the New Jersey Supreme Court rules on a suit filed by the family of Nancy Ellen Jobes, asking for the removal of a feeding tube from the 31-year-old comatose woman. A contentious brief in the Jobes case was filed by New Jersey's Catholic bishops. In the view of several Boston participants, the document distorts church tradition by opposing the withdrawal of nutrition under any circumstances...
...which experts on ethics, especially Catholics, are currently struggling. Is a surgically implanted nourishment tube similar to optional forms of medical technology, or is it more akin to the simple providing of food and water for the sick, which is a moral requirement for everyone? The New Jersey bishops' brief in the Jobes case insists that medical treatments are wholly different from food and fluids, which "are basic to human life." Nutrition, say the bishops, "must always be provided to a patient." But as the CHA experts saw it, neither the Vatican nor the U.S. bishops' conference takes such...