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...Illness, Dr. Silverman successfully predicted when, after severe, prolonged stress, illness would come and which part of the body would suffer. One successful prediction-of imminent respiratory disease-came after a patient said his girl friend's heavy smoking reminded him of his mother, who died of a chronic respiratory ailment. Another clue: he had dreamed of a nearly forgotten girl friend and casually mentioned chest pains he once suffered in an auto accident with...
Strife is familiar enough to West Virginia, a state with a history of chronic coal-mining wars. Early in September trouble erupted again. Pickets closed coal mines and truck terminals in the Charleston area and surrounding Kanawha County and in five neighboring counties, keeping 6,000 miners out of work. Beatings and shooting broke out on the picket lines. Construction on the Appalachian Power Co.'s massive new plant came to a halt. Protesters held mass meetings and disrupted public bus service in Charleston, and at the height of the furor a quarter of Kanawha County schoolchildren stayed...
...chronic caller. As usual, she had a lot to say: descriptions of her problems and fantasies; the ramblings of a lonely person...
...counselling call of the night occurred after I left. It was the same chronic caller. One of the students was on duty for the first time; he talked to her until...
...only a young man who happens to be 75 years old. Harry and Tonto thus trivializes the problems of the elderly--the worst of them seems to be incontinence--and makes answers look too easy. If only our old people didn't have to face things like chronic illness and mental deterioration, the film seems to say, they could lead happy, useful lives. At the end of the movie, Harry seems superior to almost all those he's left behind. He gains inner serenity from one round of purgative family visits and a move from New York to Miami Beach...