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When this fails to happen, the same society sets out to punish the mother for her "maternal failure," labeling her a child abuser...
Jimmy Arias isn't an asshole any more. He doesn't toss his racquet or curse; he pouts only occasionally. More often he follows a miscue with a fierce sneer as he stomps cross court, determined to punish the ball for betraying him. The youngest player ever to receive an Association of Tennis Professions (ATP) world ranking has risen above the junior tennis mentality that constricted my back hand on big break points and has been the downfall of many wunderkind who far surpassed me in talent. He is playing now to challenge himself, to fulfill a greatness he knows...
...quickly the Olympic hopefuls have disappeared from the public eye, relegated to the small type on scoreboard pages across the country. Relative merits of the boycott aside, who are we trying to punish this summer, the supreme athletes or the supreme Soviet? The recent award bestowed upon the U.S. Olympic hockey team by the American Institute for Public Service (Secretary of State emeritus Cyrus Vance also got one) was richly-deserved; the enormity of the upset and its subsequent effect on national spirit cannot be exaggerated. Who can forget captain Mike Eruzione saying, "Good luck to you, Mr. President...
There is a dark side to Soviet psychiatry: its misuse as a political weapon to punish dissidents, in 1970 Biologist Zhores Medvedev, who now lives in London, was committed to a psychiatric hospital on the order of his city commune. He was released 19 days later, after a wave of international protest. Medvedev had struck a deal with hospital authorities that if discharged he would write nothing about his hospitalization or the struggle to get him out; when he learned that he would have to report regularly to mental health centers for follow-up care, he and his brother, Historian...
Kubrick crafts his camera angles carefully, providing framing and backgrounds that serve as leitmotifs for each character. He maintains a persistent symmetry, as if the Torrances were caught in a photographic vise. And he is witty: when Jack makes up his mind to punish Danny, the cartons in the pantry behind him read "Pimento Pieces" and "Peach Slices...