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Illich's diagnosis of medicine's mal ady is correct. But his prescription is both polemical and disappointing. He rejects such political and economic solutions as national health insurance and closer regulation. Instead, he proposes a return to conservatism, a sort of spiritual recognition that suffering is unavoidable in life, a facing up to the inevitability of death as well as the limits of medicine. There is no question that Illich's approach would decrease man's dependence on a medical establishment that already exerts great influence over him. Unfortunately, in the long run it would...
...pencil-nosed naïf Michael J. Doonesbury, a founding member of the Walden Puddle Commune and an armchair liberal who spends much of his time, quite literally in an armchair, sampling the world's lunacy from television newscasts. He seems to have a gift for the mal mot, telling a menacing group of black separatists, "Hey, ol' Martin Luther King was one heck of a fellah, wasn't he?" or informing a $65,000-a-year rock entrepreneur in California that "back East you 'Frisco hipsters are kind of legendary, living off the land...
...movie features Dunaway as the starchy wife of a university professor, played by Austrian Actor Oskar Werner. The filming, some of which took place off the coast of Barcelona, caused some seasickness problems among the moviemakers, but Dunaway seemed to have had more worries about costuming than mal de mer. "My problem," she says simply, "was in trying to keep the monocle clamped...
...unable to stand off an Arab drive led by the Syrians to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in the debate with all the privileges of a member state. Thus a Palestinian delegation, led by the P.L.O.'s "Foreign Minister," Farouk Kaddoumi, made the fourth for mal appearance in U.N. proceedings since Yasser Arafat's triumphal arrival at the U.N. the fall of 1974. Also as expected, Israel's Ambassador Chaim Herzog made good on his boycott threat if the P.L.O. was admitted. The U.S. was thus left alone to defend both Israel and its own Middle East policy...
Brown just missed qualifying for the finals Saturday when San Francisco forward Mal Roche tapped in the winning shot after a scramble in front of the net at 6:43 of the third sudden-death overtime period...