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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...driven to dementia and a symbiotic murder-suicide by urges that both share but neither understands, seems a scenario only Cronenberg could dream up. In fact, the story comes from the novel Twins, by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland, which in turn was based on the case history of Drs. Cyril and Stewart Marcus, a pair of respected gynecologists who in 1975 were found dead in a Manhattan apartment. From these threads Cronenberg has spun a fantasia of split personality and the vulnerable male ego. The film's identical twins, Elliot and Beverly Mantle (both played by Jeremy Irons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Terminal Case of Brotherly Love DEAD RINGERS | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...elevated risk of death, early or late, after the loss." There was one exception: the death rate rose among widowed and divorced parents who had lost a son, suggesting that support from a spouse lessens grief-related stress. "Rather than emphasize the disruptive power of stress," wrote Drs. Malcolm Rogers and Peter Reich of the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, "the physician may do better to emphasize human resilience and the power of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Grief Is No Killer | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

...news account on March 2 incorrectly identified four doctors on a fact-finding team sponsored by Physicians for Human Rights. Drs. Bennett Simon and Leon Shapiro are associate clinical professors of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; Dr. Jennifer Leaning is director of emergency services for the Harvard Community Health Plan. The leader of the team, H. Jack Geiger, is a professor of community medicine at the City University of New York Medical School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editors' Note: | 3/5/1988 | See Source »

...best friend is a 6-foot-tall white rabbit named Harvey. Well, gee, folks, the only problem is that no one else can see Harvey, and Veta and Myrtle think poor Elwood's gone a little soft upstairs, so they take him to see a couple of wacky psychiatrists, Drs. Sanderson and Chumley, and that's when the hysterical antics begin...

Author: By Will Meyerhofer, | Title: Basic Bunny | 10/30/1987 | See Source »

...Nuclear War, a disturbing history of American nuclear strategy, Drs. Michio Kaku and Daniel Axelrod, professors of physics at the City University of New York and the University of Michigan respectively, illustrate that most everybody is right...

Author: By Mitchell Berman, | Title: Nukes and Crannies | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

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