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Nineteenth century psychiatrists coined a term for the irresistible impulse to swipe: they called it kleptomania, from the Greek kleptein, to steal. It was applied after the fact to Jane Austen's aunt, who was tried in 1800 for pocketing fancy white lace. By the 1920s Freudian psychologists, always attuned to underlying sexual drives, were comparing the rush from a successful filch to the pleasure of an orgasm. Experts today are more inclined to compare recreational larceny to thrill-seeking behaviors like bungee jumping or to addictions like drug abuse or compulsive gambling...
...which is true and sounds more like a critical historical thesis than the edgy, absorbing movie Haynes has made. He is able to raise the melodramatic stakes. Yes, his Cathy (Julianne Moore) is drawn to her gardener (Dennis Haysbert) in the same way Jane Wyman once was to Rock Hudson. But he is now a black man, thus infinitely more threatening to suburban comity. Her husband (Dennis Quaid) is a workaholic, as emotionally absent as any Sirk hero. But he is also coming to belated terms with his long-closeted homosexuality. Haynes is opening issues here that '50s movies could...
Because of Acting Governor Jane Swift’s statewide budget cuts, the organization that provides the majority of Unilu’s funds—the Massachusetts Housing And Shelter Alliance—has cut the shelter’s yearly budget by 11 percent, about $5,500, according to Unilu Financial Director Julia G. Kiechel...
...Freshman Jane Evans led the way for Harvard, winning both the 100- and 200-yard breaststroke, swimming the second leg for the Crimson’s victorious 400-yard freestyle relay and the breaststroke leg for the foursome in the 200-yard medley relay...
Showcasing her endurance, Evans triumphed in her third race of the day, taking the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:22.16, nearly three seconds ahead of co-captain Jane Humphries (2:25.15), who took second, and more than five seconds ahead of the third-place finisher...