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...Democratic primary. The two men clashed on nearly every issue: McDermott opposed an oil pipeline under Puget Sound and favored restricting log exports so that the wood could be processed within the state, thereby creating additional jobs; Spellman backed the pipeline and supported the exports. McDermott, a psychiatrist by profession, admitted that projected budget deficits over the next two years (up to $1 billion) might trigger higher taxes, while Spellman pledged a balanced budget. During one debate, Spellman brandished a waffle to illustrate his charge that McDermott vacillated on the issues. Outspending his rival $1.2 million to $600,000, Spellman...
...blood pressure. The hostages will be irritable, jumpy, and display a short fuse." They may also display everything from memory lapses to lost appetite, insomnia and nightmares. While the severity will vary, the psychological scars are sure to be deep in every case. Says David G. Hubbard, a Dallas psychiatrist: "Some individuals are strengthened in a situation like this, and some are crippled...
...them. Roth and Elkin take a different direction; they pretend that they would gladly stick to brass tacks and the big issues if only the world were not so loony. The hero of Portnoy's Complaint (1969), Roth's most celebrated novel, cries out to his psychiatrist: "Doctor Spielvogel, this is my life, my only life, and I'm living it in the middle of a Jewish joke! I am the son in the Jewish joke - only it ain't no joke!" If not, though, then why is the book so funny...
Modern, that is to say post-Freudian, Vienna. But the doings related in this film are strictly pre-Freudian, not to say prehistoric, in their banality. A rather dour young American psychiatrist (Art Garfunkel) is accosted at a party by a young American something or other (Theresa Russell), who is rather feverish in her gaiety. Instead of his suggesting a professional appointment, they decide to have an affair. But he cannot keep it light, and she cannot take it seriously; the rich variety of sexual experience she has had has led her to the conclusion that the pleasures of romance...
...vengeance sounds thin and narrow. And so it is, at bottom. But the story is told mainly in a jumble of quick-cut flashbacks as the man waits in the hospital to see if the doctors can save his sometime lover. Interspersed in all this are interrogations of the psychiatrist by the detective and some peculiarly nasty glimpses into the surgery room, where un pleasant things are being done to the lady...