Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CINEMA LAND, the line between fantasy and reality is particularly thin and fragile, like a strip of celluloid viewed edgewise. Movies are supposed to imitate life, but they merely imitate other movies. If you doubt this, try counting the number of times Shane, The Front Page or The Maltese Falcon have been rehashed. It's often left up to reality to conform to the images we see on our movie or TV screens, sometimes in very perverse ways...
...moral codes, has covered U.S. politics and politicians for the past 30 years. Still, he found Cuomo a compelling and challenging subject. "He shows you many different sides of himself," notes Ajemian, "but the fact is he has superb information control. It is the trial lawyer in him, no doubt. He instantly reads one's questions and the motives of one's questions...
Justice Department officials privately doubt that a news organization can be successfully prosecuted under Section 798. But the mere prospect of Government action could serve the same purpose. "We don't want to police the press," says a CIA spokesman. "We want the press to police itself." The dilemma is that unless a news organization is willing to risk criminal prosecution, it must rely on the CIA to tell it whether a story poses a threat to national security. As the sometime subject of such stories, the CIA may not always be the most objective judge...
...Senator in 1949, Kampelman followed as his legislative counsel. He left Capitol Hill in 1955 to join the prestigious law firm currently known as Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. He also enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve. Explains Kampelman: "The development of atomic and hydrogen bombs led me to doubt my earlier faith in the power of nonviolence to overcome evil in international relations...
...three treatments worked well with less disturbed patients. But among the severely depressed (44% of the sample), cognitive behavior therapy proved less effective than drug or interpersonal therapy. Researchers are inclined to doubt that the difference is significant. The general finding that the two different talk therapies are about equally effective strengthens the hand of those who believe that since most therapies get about the same results, the hotly debated differences among talk treatments are basically irrelevant...