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...some ways, Zelig is just the latest dose of the standard Woody Allen potion. (Some of the more recent disasters like A Midsummer's Night Sex Comedy excepted.) The film focuses in on a New York neurotic Jew who bumbles along with one-liners trying to cope with his problems. Leonard Zelig's chief disorder is that he wants to be liked by everyone. It starts when he feels compelled to join in a discussion of Moby Dick although he has never read the book. Zelig's condition worsens until he assumes the characteristics of the people he is with...
...members of the British Voluntary Euthanasia Society. When the famed 77-year-old writer (Darkness at Noon), who suffered from Parkinson's disease, decided two weeks ago that his life was intolerable, he reportedly swallowed the finely calibrated dose of drugs prescribed by the society. Sharing the fatal potion was his wife Cynthia, 55, who apparently believed she could not endure life without him. When police found the Koestlers in their London town house, husband and wife were seated in an upstairs room, in a macabre tableau of family death...
...assisting a suicide is a crime, but under the First Amendment, how-to manuals may be published. Thus, Let Me Die Before I Wake, put out by Hemlock, a Los Angeles-based organization named for the potion taken by Socrates, has been sold freely in bookstores. A more compassionate work than its British counterpart, Let Me Die gives case histories of desperately sick patients who have sought to end their lives. In recounting successful attempts, the book gives the precise doses of the drugs used...
...comes from less, says that southerners view men as an integral part of cheerleading. Down south men do the cheers along with the girls, they just don't stand around and use the megaphones as we do for the most part here. It's just a different come potion what cheerleading is all about...
...near-depression, and long after David Stockman's public admission that the President's "economic recovery program" was merely a blind and cyncial "Trojan Horse" to sell upward redistribution of income and wealth to the masses, those masses continue to believe that miracles will result from swallowing this bitter potion...