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...their aggressiveness, their flippancy, their maleness. Kings in their operating room, they must become serfs in the benign dictatorship of Nice. If this emotional brainwashing is redemption, then give us hell. These movies are hot-air balloons that deserve to be punctured -- preferably with a Black & Decker power drill...
...Desmond, a fourth-grade teacher who lives in Coram, N.Y., and her two children, husband, sister and brother-in-law all became Feldman's patients. "But in the last five or six years, he changed," Desmond recalls. "He did three shoddy root canals on me and even left a drill bit in one tooth." Now she has a lot more than a few botched operations to worry about. Last week state health authorities confirmed that they are trying to determine whether Feldman, 45, who died of pneumonia in June, had unwittingly infected any patients with the AIDS virus...
Summer television: the term alone is enough to conjure up the hot-weather blahs. Viewers know the drill all too well by now. Once the May sweeps are over, the network schedules become almost wall-to-wall reruns, occasionally interrupted by new episodes of series we thought we'd seen the last of and batches of rejected pilots gathered into umbrella series with disingenuous titles like Summer Playhouse...
...might easily have been as overbearing -- and as deadly -- as some of their interpretations are. It is not, though, and anyone with a sense of recent film history can see Thelma & Louise in the honorable line of movies whose makers, without quite knowing what they were doing, sank a drill into what appeared to be familiar American soil and found that they had somehow tapped into a wild- rushing subterranean stream of inchoate outrage and deranged violence. Bonnie and Clyde and Easy Rider, Dirty Harry and Fatal Attraction -- all these movies began as attempts to vary and freshen traditional generic...
Callahan's dooming moment came during a practice the week after the Crimson's second game of the season--a blowout win over Northeastern which lifted Harvard's record to 2-0. While turning after a routine compression blocking drill, the Kirkland House resident incurred a seriously herniated disk...