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...rest of the cast is uneven. John Cazale does well as a funereally unctuous Goebbels, while Jaime Sanchez simply rants as Goring. The most dis concerting performance is that of Sully Boyar, who plays Hindenburg as a gemütlicher grandpapa with a Jewish inflection. The ultimate failure rests with Pacino, who leaves a final impression of Hitler as a poor immigrant boy who made it very very...
...patients. But in 1972, the U.S. Pub lic Health Service reluctantly admitted that it had done just that. In an effort to study the effects of syphilis on the human body, the PHS, in a Macon County, Ala., study, allowed 425 poor, un educated black men who had the dis ease, and who were recruited through local clinics, to go untreated. The dis closure of the 40-year study stirred an immediate outcry (TIME, Aug. 7, 1972) and led to a $1.8 billion suit against the Federal Government by lawyers rep resenting both those who had survived and the families...
...researchers from the Center for Dis ease Control in Atlanta and the Minnesota Department of Health studied this one to get an idea of its economic impact. They found that it was expensive indeed. Those who went to the hospital spent $2,965. The restaurant owner lost an estimated $5,000 worth of business as a result, and the investigation cost $2,355. The biggest loss was in wages of those who missed work: $18,413, which pushed the cost of even this mini-epidemic...
Nathan writes with a certain dis taste for Mishima - which is natural enough since Mishima was, for all his exuberance and charm, a squirmingly unpleasant character; his brilliance had the phosphorescence of decay. All his life, he was explicitly and erotically in love with death. Suicide was the only act, he believed, that could make him comprehend his own existence. Just after Mishima disemboweled himself, his mother said: "This was the first time in his life that Kimitake [Mishima] did something he always wanted to do. Be happy...
...bishops' own committee on moral values painted an even more dis mal picture of an America gone morally mad with thievery, white-collar crime, "perjury and other violations of honesty at even the highest level of public life." The committee's report also scored economic exploitation of the poor, widespread pornography, violent entertainment and violent crime, more frequent divorce and not only wide acceptance of abortion but the beginning of acceptance of mercy killing. "In significant ways, contemporary Western culture is nonChristian; some would say it is anti-Christian," the report concluded. "Christian beliefs and values are actively...