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...story calls for. Although the only real momentum the thin plot ever generates surrounds Angie's pregnancy and the birth of her child, the film's restrained exploration of the complexities of the characters and relationships more than make up for this lack. Angie can be simultaneously selfish, callous, sarcastic and affectionate. Even when Angie's actions are reprehensible. Davis infuses her character with so much spirit that she remains engaging. Without this light-handed performance, Angie's internal turmoil as impending motherhood forces her to confront her own demons would never have worked...
...women, adores their quiddities, luxuriates ceaselessly in their bodies: toes, earlobes, the whole array of earthly delights. When he is paying what would appear to be monomaniacal attention to one sweetheart, he is, naughty fellow, roistering in memory or anticipation with a flotilla of others. This isn't calculated, callous satyrism; Ira isn't Don Juan. He's helpless, a captive. (He does seem to have a job, but it's in public relations, and doesn't require much attention...
...many Americans, a frightening effect of the inevitable rationing of health care dollars will be an inability to use all of the lifesaving means available. We may have to stop spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to add three months to an 80-year-old's life. As callous as it may sound, we will have to start viewing life in terms of dollar figures...
Ignorance: Attitudes are improving, perhaps, but still I hear so many ignorant and callous remarks and actions. With regard to attitudes and acceptance, the Harvard community can be a better place than many for the highly functional mentally ill. (It would be terribly difficult for anyone to last around Harvard if burdened with the gravest forms of mental illness.) In my experience most people here are relatively enlightened and compassionate compared to society at large...
Shame, Christopher, is the feeling one has when one treats another with disgrace and disrespect. Shame is the human experience of realizing that one has acted inhumanely. Shame is the sense of embarrassment and regret that overwhelms each of us when we appreciate how callous we have been, how intolerant or fearful. Shame is what we feel when we are young and mean to one younger, poor and indifferent to one poorer, willing to act superior toward those more rejected than ourselves...