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...Fosse's direction is as chaotic as it was in his previous Sweet Char ity, a desperate scramble after a style...
...matter how well-formed and active it appears. This paradox has already caused acute emotional problems-anxiety, insomnia and depression-among nurses in Hawaii, which a year ago became the first state to legalize abortion on request. At a meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Psychiatrists Walter Char and John McDermott of the University of Hawaii School of Medicine reported that nurses in Honolulu hospitals suffered "acute identity crises" or doubts about their roles in aiding abortions...
Called in to give some psychiatric first aid, Char and McDermott found that unrestricted abortions were not only troubling the nurses' consciences but also bringing to the surface all of "their deep, unresolved personal conflicts regarding birth, death, sex and aggression." Setting up a number of group meetings, the two psychiatrists encouraged the nurses to talk freely about their pent-up thoughts. It soon became evident to most that their turbulent feelings and reactions were widely shared, normal and perfectly understandable to the psychiatrists...
Other styles have been wispier (the Char), wilder (the Afro), more exaggerated (the Artichoke) and harder to maintain (the Poodle). But until now, women had not seriously considered a hairdo based on a multitude of lengths, from very short on top, to slightly longer along the sides, to a long, lank finale down the neck. They never considered it for good reason: it was sure to look abominable. But then so do midiskirts. And with hems gone to ungainly lengths, why not hair too? What better way to play both ends against the mini...
...slow-motion rhythms of Arctic life, a crop of simple lichen may take 100 years to grow to maturity?a few inches high. Arctic char, a staple Eskimo food, keeps on growing for 18 years. Migratory birds?lesser Canada geese, eider ducks, American pintails, whistling swans, Brant geese?must time their breeding to the day. If winter is unusually long, a whole species may achieve zero population growth because it lacks time to hatch and rear its young before the ice begins to return in late August...