Word: patient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...researchers and therapists routinely use porn films to prod troubled couples into overcoming their sexual inhibitions. Says Dr. Zev Wanderer of the Center for Behavior Therapy in Beverly Hills: "Watching explicit sex makes the patient willing to try in his own life what he has seen on film...
...time when women were perceived as gentle suppliant chattels, Ibsen was probing the feminine psyche in depth. Ellida (Vanessa Redgrave) is an Ibsen heroine who finds herself. She owes much to a husband, Wangel, who is patient, wise and totally generous, precisely those qualities that Nora's husband, in A Doll's House, lacked. Ellida is tormentedly neurotic. She is the doctor's second wife, and she married him for financial security, not love...
Front Man. The combination of more stalemate and more rebellion evidently was the last straw for the military. Sitting in his Beirut headquarters beneath a portrait of Franjieh, Ahdab told reporters the morning after his surprise television broadcast: "For God's sake, we have been patient for ten months, and if we had waited one more day, there would have been uncontrollable bloodshed." The choice of Ahdab as the military's front man was apparently carefully calculated by a group of Christian and Moslem officers to give the coup a nonreligious character. He is the highest-ranking Sunni...
...duty near many of the victims around the time they died. They included a four-year-old girl who had undergone surgery for removal of intestinal cysts and a 36-year-old woman who had given birth by caesarean section; none of the 13 was Dr. X's patient. Opening Dr. X's hospital locker, a fellow doctor found 18 vials of curare, most of them empty. Former County Prosecutor Guy W. Calissi questioned Dr. X, but the surgeon insisted that he was merely using the muscle relaxant for spare-time experiments on "dying dogs." Told that...
Even then, Kissinger had some sense of what was to happen to him. The catharsis from Viet Nam would continue, he calculated, coming to rest on him, the one man from those dark days still in high power. And then, Kissinger told his patient listeners, the American people would probably wake up with the spring flowers to see what he and some others had long known: the power of the Soviet Union was drawing abreast of the U.S.'s-a profound shock after a quarter-century of overwhelming superiority...