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Agility has long been the name of the game in defining diagnostic categories. In 1973 the psychiatrists placated a powerful gay lobby by deciding that homosexuality, "per se," is not a mental disorder. This left in limbo those homosexuals who are dissatisfied with their condition. So the association created "ego-dystonic homosexuality," the world's first mental disorder that is only a disorder if the afflicted person thinks it is. DSM-III, published in 1980, officially listed tobacco dependence and transsexualism as disorders. "Tobacco dependence" may have been discovered to be a special disorder, worthy of its own category...
...still palpable in Italian cinema. Recently Marcello Mastroianni has starred in two adaptations, of the novel The Late Mattia Pascal and the play Henry IV. Both movies offer aspects of the basic Pirandello theme, in which the universe is a carrousel whirling off its moral axis, and man's ego is a mask that conceals a gaping void. In their entrancing new film, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani have revived a less familiar Pirandello: the compulsive storyteller, spinning tales about his native Sicily, its stern landscape and elemental passions. Kaos dramatizes four of the short fictions Pirandello collected...
...Goldman Sachs...is as close to a meritocracy as any company on the planet,” he says. “The ego issues are really set aside in terms of what benefits the group...
Lowe’s boyish giggle offsets the subdued mohawk and slight trace of black eyeliner that betray his rock-star alter ego. When singing in his new band “Tommy and the Tigers,” Lowe’s costume choices range from a pink lounge suit to black leather pants, and his crisp gyrations, coaxing smile, and lusty vocals draw in audiences. Lowe has been playing to the crowd in one form or another for the majority of his conscious life, and he’s not about to stop...
...that might have been an early firebreak,” Gigot wrote. “But this would have prevented Mr. Summers from playing the role of a modern ‘Gen. Douglas MacArthur’ in Asia...though this is unfair to MacArthur, who had a smaller ego...