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...medical school professor "did in the laboratory sometimes refer to women as cunts, did make sexually suggestive gestures, and did write instructions to [the student] on a notepad picturing female genitalia," according to the confidential report of a faculty review committee...
According to Ford, somatizing disorders take many forms, including hysteria, malingering, chronic pain and hypochondriasis. The hypochondriac is preoccupied with the fear of having a serious disease. Some doctors refer to the treatment of hypochondriacs, or "crocks," as "psychoceramic medicine" and the recitation of their histories as "organ recitals." Other somatizers sometimes deliberately fake illness, going so far, for example, as to rub a thermometer on a bedsheet to produce a fever, lacerate the skin to create lesions, or overuse laxatives to disrupt the gastrointestinal tract. In the bizarre Munchausen syndrome, which, according to one estimate, affects...
...problem with volunteer tax advisors, Allen said, is that "some people get carried away with what they think they can do." The IRS purposely limits what they teach the volunteers, and encourages them to refer complicated problems to the IRS's main Boston office...
...everyone knows, there are no bad boys; there are only bad film makers. When Screenwriter Richard DiLello and Director Rick Rosenthal made this year's film about the tough life of reform-school inmates, they determined to refer not to life but to all the other movies that have preceded them down melodrama's last mile. Sean Penn (memorable as the spaced-out surfer in last year's Fast Times at Ridgemont High) plays the youth who recognizes his own decency and sensitivity about two hours after the audience has been tipped to it. Penn is fine...
...policy emphasis of the speech was the president's opposition to the nuclear freeze--the bulk of it merely an intensification of his standard anti-freeze position. The president did refer to the Soviet Union as an "evil empire," but in general the speech recalled his address to the British Parliament last June, in which he called for an effort to promote democracy throughout the world. Most of the net effect of the evangelical convention speech, therefore, was political, silencing those on the New Right who have wondered whether the President has forgotten them. Just as commentators on Chinese affairs...