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...study, Drs. Denis Madden, John Lion and Manoel Penna of the University of Maryland School of Medicine conclude that psychiatrists may have a definite tendency to stir violence in their patients. In a poll of 115 psychiatrists working in hospitals, clinics and in private practice, the Maryland team found that no fewer than 48 admitted that they had been assaulted by patients on one or more occasions. Most of the psychiatrists agreed that upon reflection, they themselves had probably, if unwittingly, provoked the attacks...
...WIND AND THE LION...
Childhood Reveries. The Wind and the Lion is the sort of movie that no one is supposed to make any more. The secret is, however, that no one ever did. A great part of its huge, shambling appeal is that The Wind and the Lion is made not in reverence for old movies but rather from a romantic distortion of them. Everything is outsized, scaled even larger than the heroics in Gunga Din or Beau Geste: soldiers are still braver, sheiks more dashing, the heroine more spiritual and loving...
...work here, the quality of a daydream. All the characters are creatures of the best reveries of childhood. This does not mean that they should be taken lightly. Writer-Director Milius has some distance on his dreams, but he is still absolutely devoted to them. The Wind and the Lion has a view of the glories of combat and courage that is both willful and wistful. All enemies are united in a common bond of honor. Blood shed is never ignoble, always ennobling, and adversaries fight with grace and mutual respect. The movie even has enough bluff and crust...
...fair indication. A screenwriter (The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean) whose only previous feature was the routine and derivative Dillinger (1973), Milius makes considerable-indeed, amazing- progress here. It has been a long time since Hollywood has produced an adventure as sumptuous as The Wind and the Lion or a fantasy as rich...