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...Your story about Father Robert Duryea's attempted marriage fails to mention that clandestine marriage is prohibited for all Roman Catholics, not just vowed celibates. Many will find his ease at fraud more difficult to understand than his discomfort in celibacy...
Hanging Skin. Circulation cut by a quarter, the client totters to a plastic-covered lounge and gets soaked with the mysterious liquid, then is zipped into a plastic suit. There the customers lie in moist and mummy-like discomfort for 90 minutes. Then they are unzipped and measured to discover how many inches they have lost...
...burn immediately. Prompt immersion in cold water, says Dr. John Moncrief of the University of South Carolina, has the same effect on a burn as on a lighted match: it "puts out the fire." Equally important, the burn is prevented from spreading, thus minimizing both the damage and the discomfort, maximizing the prospects for recovery...
There is a preponderance of close-up shots which, with the often grotesque sensuality of the action, reflect in detail the beery, sweaty discomfort of stale drunkenness. And with Cassavetes' improvisational style the actors can give themselves wholeheartedly to this scene of frustration yielding to indulgence. For the first hour jokes are funny, the pace of the action is tolerably fast, and Cassavetes is capturing something of the desperate enthusiasm of a middle-aged bender...
...while disciplinary hearings usually take place in a political context, right after the event in question has occurred, readmission's cases come up over six months later, when time has faded the incidents and issues into history. But the readmission's cases are important. They do more than discomfort the individuals involved; they also indicate the nature of the CRR and its mode of operation...