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...A.M.A. believes caution is essential. It recommends that physicians not prescribe Entero-Vioform prophylactically, but offer alternative advice: when in doubt, don't drink the water; when in distress, try paregoric...
...Fistful of Dollars and one of the world's classic "westerns." It's a Japanese movie but contains many elements familiar to the fan of the American horse opera. There is the wandering, homeless hero, the isolated town being destroyed by rival factions, a beautiful woman in distress and finally, a showdown--Japanese style. However, Yojimbo goes beyond all this and so avoids the mediocrity of a morass of cliches. Akira Kurosawa, the director, who focused world attention on Japanese cinema with Rashoman and Seven Samurai, succeeds in Yojimbo without resorting to either didacticism or melodrama. Violence accompanies comedy...
...Europe. No longer. Today there is a very real danger that more than two years of diplomatic labors could be undone, possibly even drowning Richard Nixon's hoped-for "era of negotiation" in a renewed round of cold war invective. Improbable as it might seem-and to the distress of almost everyone concerned-the future course of East-West relations hangs on a margin of two votes in West Germany's Bundestag...
...reason and law," Miss Shevey says, "and in a matriarchal society they are art, magic, spir ituality and mystery. These are the qualities that women could bring to films." Critic Shevey maintains that the image of women in movies has hardly improved since D.W. Griffith's damsels in distress, and is still stuck in the axis between sex object and wifemother figure. Even in the new, "liberated" films, s he says, women are depicted as cooks and baby makers, "either imperiled or hard as nails...
...creator, but those clues are not often as explicit as the suicidal lines of a 15-year-old boy whose fate became known to English Professor Abraham Blinder-man of the State University of New York. Blinderman thinks that the boy's teacher should have recognized his deep distress, and he believes that if the youngster had been in poetry therapy, his eloquent poem (see box) would have been understood as a cry for help. In that case, psychiatric treatment might have saved him. As it was, his cry went unheeded, and two years later he committed suicide...