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...rarely possible to point to experiments and say, this one is ethical, this one is unethical-- and for this reason, the Committee has avoided sweeping regulation. On the issue of deceit, for example, it has formulated no general policy. No consensus exists within the Psychology and Social Relations Department on the morality of deception. Kelman believes, for example, that deception "may create self-doubts, lower self-esteem, or create temporary conflict, frustration or anxiety." Even when it may seem benign, Kelman writes, deception "violates the respect to which all fellow humans are entitled...
...doubt near the bottom of the hierarchy. He favors light blue ink for his graffiti. There's barely enough room left for the note that he's carefully marking in tonight: "ChRiStiANS G.Green SAYS The OnLy Good 1 SA DEAd ONE. MASTER of CEREMONIES OF MONIES $ OR MASTERS OF DECEIT The ANGLOS." He shuffles to one side and blinks at his spectator, the corners of his mouth twitch as though my bewilderment amuses him. "Did you know about the Polish-Americans?" The general manager sneaks up while the scribbler is saying that he would prefer to continue our conversation...
...career of an aspiring stewardess on any regularly scheduled airline, but they have helped make Karen Black, 32, the busiest actress in Hollywood. She has just finished her sixth movie in the past two years, and last week she began work on her seventh, Alfred Hitchcock's Deceit. She has not sought out safe, sympathetic parts. She has played the teasing Faye Greener in The Day of the Locust, the honky-tonk waitress Rayette Dipesto in Five Easy Pieces, the low-down and libidinous Myrtle Wilson in The Great Gatsby, and the victimized Monkey in Portnoy's Complaint...
Bruce Dern, who in Deceit will co-star with her for the third time, says: "Karen is always alive on that screen." Jack Nicholson, her co-star in Easy Rider and Five Easy Pieces and her director in Drive, He Said, maintains that "she's the most lucid actress I've ever worked with. You tell her where it's at and she grabs it." For Black, acting is like grabbing at air. She says that she plans nothing about a character and gives a role "no prior thought...
...Fourth of July. The ceremony will boast balloons and banners, a contrast to the Black-Burton nuptials, which featured the bride and groom larking in bed sheets. Black vows: "I'm ready for a good marriage and children." But the new bride will be back on the Deceit set the next...