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Spouses may share the same bed and even each other's mannerisms. Now scientists conclude that husbands and wives also share something not nearly as sweet: their diseases. Examining the ills of 8,000 English couples, researchers publishing in the British Medical Journal found that when one partner is depressed or has an ulcer, the other is twice as likely as a member of a healthy couple to have the same problem. High blood pressure, high cholesterol and asthma also seem to run in pairs. Some of these phenomena can easily be explained. Spouses are exposed to the same allergens...
...Boomtown's relatively straightforward narrative mainly means you get to see car crashes from two different angles. (CSI's flashbacks, which change as the investigators get closer to the truth, are more Rashomon-esque.) The cast, however, is fine, especially Donnie Wahlberg as a hangdog detective with a mentally ill wife, and the writing above average, though a bit grandiose. If you need a 15th cop show to watch this year, you could do worse...
...referred to as theCall: "Go forth from your native land/And from your father's house/And I will make of you a great nation/And I will bless those who bless you/And curse him that curses you/And all the families of the earth shall bless themselves by you." Abraham would appear ill suited to the job. To make a nation, one must have an heir, and he is a childless 75-year-old whose wife Sarah is past menopause. Yet he complies, and he and Sarah set off for a desert hinterland--Canaan--and a new spiritual epoch...
...never saw my adoptive father again. Twenty-seven years after I put my napkin down at breakfast, I heard that my adoptive mother, now widowed, was ill and lonely. I sighed and made contact with her. We never forgave each other. Still, I'm glad I did it. It may seem very cynical of me, but if I hadn't, I never would have written Three Tall Women. That play was the beginning of a particularly fertile decade for me that produced The Play About the Baby and The Goat, among other things. And it's not over...
Yellow is clearly this season’s color of choice, but the normally cheery hue takes on gruesome overtones in this ill-conceived ad. The poster’s central image of a black Jewish star on a solid yellow background cannot help but evoke memories of the dreaded armbands worn by Jews in Nazi-era Europe. Such associations must surely have been unintended by the “Harvard Students for Israel,” but the comp ad’s blazing slogan gives the thoughtful viewer pause. Did the Zionist organization mean to make light...