Word: patient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That's the ultimate objective, but I'm afraid that I won't be around when that occurs. It's a long way off. Arms control is a long, hard business. I think we have to be patient and persevere...
...witness (Theodore Sorel) testifies that the defendant, Dr. Winston Gerrard (Earle Hyman), held the aborted fetus inside the patient's uterus and counted off three minutes by the operating-room clock. In a devastating counterstroke, the defense attorney proves that the doctor could not have seen the clock-it had been removed for repairs...
...Patient Cop. One likes the movie for refusing to be yet another example of the paranoia and the senselessness of the times in which we live. It is as patient as Martin Beck (well played by Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt) in linking the final mass violence to the brutal, suspensefully executed murder with which the film begins. It is full of lightly sketched details that give Beck, his team of detectives, the whole cop milieu weight and depth almost subliminally, in the manner of a good novel. More than that the picture is familiar and knowing about its setting, Stockholm. Finally...
...rogue cop a long speech in which he reveals how the job has brutalized him. If it is no easier to like him as a result, at least one can begin to understand what happened to him. In short, Widerberg is a moviemaker rather like his detective hero-patient, circumspect, careful not to let his opinions get in the way of solving the puzzles his job presents to him. It is a pleasure to watch both of them at work...
...February of this year, De Mohrenschildt told Oltmans he was ready to disclose more but only outside the U.S. -he feared for his life in America. By now De Mohrenschildt seemed depressed. He had been hospitalized as a psychiatric patient for two months at the end of last year, and he had twice attempted suicide. Said Patrick Russell, his Dallas attorney: "He began to have bizarre hallucinations and distortions. He believed people were following...