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Kathryn Koob, of Jessup, Iowa, will soon take up a new assignment in New York City with the International Communications Agency. Her adjustment, she says, has been mainly in trying to find a new apartment and new credit cards-"the same kind of thing you go through when you have your purse stolen." She does get a bit miffed when autograph seekers call her Ann, confusing her with Elizabeth Ann Swift, with whom she spent her captivity. Swift, of Washington, D.C., is fighting gamely to keep from regaining weight she lost as a hostage...
...conference itself is a sign of Kirkland's new commitment to organization. David M. Jessup, assistant to the director for the AFL-CIO's Committee on Political Education, said. This year's seven regional conferences are the first comprehensive meetings of their kind on all labor issues, and the first to be addressed by the AFL-CIO President, he added...
...scene comes early in Altered States. Husband Eddie Jessup (William Hurt), a psychology researcher studying human consciousness, plays it with almost aggressive sincerity. Throughout the picture, this blond hunk seems to be trying to prove one need not look ethnic to be an intellectual. Soon, all that time under the thinking cap pays off, and Eddie knows what he wants: the secret to human life...
...psychological experimentation, pushing back the borders of reality to find a new, higher truth by getting stoned. Chayefsky, on the other hand, was intent on discovering man's true nature through this bogus concept of genetic regression. The important aspect of the story to Chayefsky is what makes Jessup want to take those trips back in evolution, while Russell cares only about the trips themselves. If that sounds confusing, that's because it is. Just think of its as a battle over turf...
...their worst. The director lifts the worst parts of the ending of 2001; the screenwriter suddenly discards the rest of the movie in favor of banalities about the "power of love"; and the actor plays it all like Aeschylus, when it's more like Rod McKuen. Eddie Jessup calls his last tango in the tank "the most supremely satisfying moment in my life." Still a young man, poor Eddie may have better days ahead...