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It's difficult for a contemporary American to imagine the lack of information about art that was the common lot of any artist who wanted to be "modern" in Australia a half-century ago. German Expressionism was known only through a pitiful smattering of black-and-white reproductions, messages in...
Families too have suffered. Unstable relationships can be pushed across the line into outright dysfunction. In some cases the Barrington team observed, one spouse became hypersexual and the other hyposexual, with obviously destabilizing consequences. Adults frequently misdirect their anger toward spouses and children. In one pitiful case, a young mother...
Students who are lucky enough to get syllabi are possessing of a sufficient status symbol to be considered middle class. The lower classes cower in corners straining to get the merest glance of the professor. Often they will try to borrow a syllabus in order to appear of a higher...
Mei Yang (Lawrence Ng), a handsome and charismatic young scholar, marries the buxom, beautiful and prudish Yuk Heung (Amy Yip). After a comically disastrous wedding night, Mei Yang initiates his wife into the pleasures of sex. Failing to heed the advice of an elderly monk, Mei Yang leaves Yuk Heung...
But since 1991, at D.C. General and other institutions around the country, another story is emerging. The three infants with their mobiles, pitiful as they are, represent a sharp decrease from two years ago, when the daily census of abandoned babies ran as high as 25. "We used to have...