Word: minded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CALIFORNIA GIRL (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Now it's the girls who are going West, and this documentary studies all the many attractions that make California not so much a state as a state of mind for Hollywood hopefuls and others...
...state-upheld values that offenders can reasonably acknowledge as superior to their own. For one thing, 77% of reported U.S. crimes are never solved; many are never even reported. Thus, most caught criminals see their problem as bad luck rather than bad character. Indeed, such are the human mind's defenses that the guilty often feel in nocent. Dostoevsky astutely depicts a would-be murderer viewing his act as "not a crime...
...Mississippi are married convicts allowed conjugal visits with their wives; sexual deprivation in other American prisons incites riots, mental illness and homosexuality. By using strong inmates to control the weak, authoritarian officials create an inmate culture that forces prisoners to "do your own time"-trust no one, freeze your mind, be indifferent. Roughly 80% of adult inmates need psychiatric help. But illtrained, ill-paid guards are so concerned with security that treatment staffs can barely function. All American prisons have onl$ 150 full-time psychiatrists, half of them in federal institutions, which hold only 5% of all prisoners...
Though the Plant Lady, as her fans call her, went on the air only seven months ago, she is already pulling 500 letters a week filled with questions as well as the remains of stricken leaves, buds and twigs. She doesn't mind picking through the "deb-ree"; as an archaeologist trained at the London School of Economics, she has been digging around in the ground for one purpose or another most of her adult life. The wife of Hugh Mencken, curator of European archaeology at Harvard's Peabody Museum, she lives in a rambling clapboard house...
...characters are magnificent, the jokes are delightful, and the film is worth seeing if you don't mind a light case of schizophrenia...