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...neither had been taken seriously. People moved freely across national frontiers, there was a common European currency and members of the European Parliament were elected by direct vote. There were European trade unions, multinational political parties, and even a European football team. But it was hard to feel as emo tional about this vast conglomerate as Father still seemed to be about his native Sicily...
...fighter, or when Tully stands in front of the mirror trying on some seedy clothes belonging to his girl's former lover. Hus ton also apparently abandoned his ac tors. Keach looks far too intelligent for the part. Although he does many tech nical things splendidly, he lacks emo tional force. Bridges, who was fine in The Last Picture Show, is at loose ends here, and Actress Tyrell's grandstand histrionics turn a surefire part into a Raggedy Ann caricature...
Testing showed significant psychological differences be tween long and short sleep ers. The shorts tended to be conformist and emo tionally stable: "a successful and relatively healthy bunch with very little overt psy-chopathology," says Hart mann. "Their entire life style involved keeping busy and avoiding psychological problems rather than facing them." They also awakened seldom during the night and arose in the morning refreshed and ready...
Adultery, fornication and homosexual acts were also against the law, as was "lascivious carriage," a curious catchall offense loosely defined as "conduct which is wanton, lewd or lustful and tending to produce voluptuous emo tions." All that has now been changed...
Relegated to the Hearth. Tiger calls this particular kind of masculine affinity "bonding": the forging of strong emo tional ties between men that have noth ing to do with women. He contends that these male bonds go back to the origins of human society, owe much to man's animal genesis and are probably genetically determined. They must first have been formed, Tiger speculates, when man turned hunter - an event that occurred anywhere from 2,000,000 to 26 million years ago and that forever after relegated man's female companion to the responsibilities of the hearth...