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...case, the one person who might have displayed outrage, Robert Bowie, gave no indication of any distress as he chatted with the swarms of media people. He had taken the time to put on a grey Brooks Brothers suit and a tie before coming over, and he was very much a man in control. No, he had not worried in advance about possible violence at the CFIA. No, he didn't think any files had been removed from the building in anticipation of such an incident. No, he didn't think X (one of the more prominent student propagandists against...
That sample equipped De Sainte Colombe with all the clues he needed to diagnose the coed's distress. The tightly closed ovals - in the O's and A's, for instance - told him that she was deeply introverted. With particular concern, he examined the capital I's - her references to herself. They were small (insecurity); some of them seemed crushed, fallen, unable to rise. Without seeing Patient D., De Sainte Colombe launched her on a course of therapeutic penmanship. For months, following his instructions, she practiced opening her ovals, elevating her base lines, crossing...
Darker Than Amber is not the best of the genre, but it provides some neat jolts of violent entertainment. The plot is the usual thing: Private Detective Travis McGee* (Rod Taylor) rescues lady-in-distress (Suzy Kendall); their affair is pleasant enough, but she skips out on him and is murdered; McGee seeks revenge on the killers. There is no absurd jigsaw plot to unravel. Stories-and movies-like this rely mostly on atmosphere and characterization, two elements in reasonably plentiful supply in Darker Than Amber. Rod Taylor plays McGee as something a little bit more than the usual...
...measure of Hanoi's own distress at the country's decaying economy is shown in the fact that it has revised one of Communism's oldest rubrics: "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." The new principle, as expressed in Hanoi's State Plan for 1970, promises that "those who work much will receive much, those who work little will receive little, and those who are able to work but refuse to must be forced to work and live by the results of their labor...
...screams the Macy's ad, "are you distraught about the disappearance of the beautiful American knee?" The way to overcome masculine distress over lower hemlines seems to be seduction. "Just relax," the ad continues. "C'ose your eyes. Breathe deeply and think positively. Think of words like slinky . . . and slender . . . and smooth. Think of clingy . . . and close-fit. Think of shape. Think of soft. Think of feminine...