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Many, perhaps most, people who seek psychiatric help have some sort of destructive impulse, and their threats or wishes to see someone dead are routine and generally harmless ways of letting off steam. But many therapists wonder if juries will think so if a patient later really decides to kill someone. "It means," said Psychiatrist Robert L. Marvin of San Francisco, "that a jury can decide by hindsight whether a doctor has used the best professional judgment...
...arid with whom the President spends his evenings. Palace officials insist that Giscard's nocturnal wanderings involve nothing more adventurous than dropping in on old friends for a drink and a chat. They contend that his yearning to escape the pressures of office briefly is just a harmless aspect of his much-touted style naturel-the flair for informality that Giscard promised to bring to French politics...
...institute the technique is the same. A company doctor can diagnose a chemical-related disease as "nervousness" ("go back to work") or "heart disease" ("go away"). A university scientist (serving, say, an "impartial" research foundation financed by corporations) can curiously come up with studies proving that a substance is harmless, even though a quarter of the workers at the factory making the stuff are dying of the same "mysterious" disease...
...most cases, the discovery of a lump is not a prelude to disaster. The female breast, which changes daily throughout the menstrual cycle, is particularly susceptible to abnormal but harmless growths. Many younger women develop cysts, or small packets of fluid. Fatty growths are not uncommon. In fact, reports the American Cancer Society, 65% to 80% of all breast lumps are not cancerous...
...disqustingly cutesie here) try to loosen up a stodgy and henpecked banker (Roland Young, well-cast). We are supposed to sympathize with the decadent ones and think that they've found the only way to live: the only trouble is that their idea of living is more than having harmless drunken fun--they're selfish and cruel and irresponsible throughout. This is a thirties high society movie that you just can't pardon. It isn't even very witty. With Billie Burke, the Good Witch in Oz, as Youngs's puritanical wife. Hal Roach produced this in 1937; directed...