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...Physiologist Stanley J. Sarnoff of the National Institutes of Health supplied a paradoxical definition: "Stress is the process of living. The process of living is the process of reacting to stress." Key points by other speakers in sup port of this view: ∙ PHYSICAL STRESS, no matter how se vere, cannot harm the heart unless it is already seriously diseased or has an in adequate blood supply, said Cardiologist Paul Dudley White. The same goes for arteries, veins and capillaries. Further more, the heart and blood vessels do not merely tolerate an abundance of regular physical exercise; they thrive...
...decisions was to do away with the Porsche police escort that whisked Konrad Adenauer to and from the office. Then Ludwig Erhard, 66, issued orders that no government official was to be supplied with the new 20½-ft. Mercedes 600 (U.S. price: $23,000), adding that the 300 SE (around $10,000) was snappy enough. And just the other day he was seen waiting patiently in line at a Bonn pastry shop to buy two pieces of cake to take home for the afternoon Kaffee und Kuchen with his wife, Luise. But a Chancellor cannot lead the simple life...
...se tells a wicked tale wrought from François Mauriac's 1927 novel Thérèse Desqueyroux and tells it in old-fashioned cinematic style. It is literate, formal, filmed with impeccable taste. It captures the dark spirit of Mauriac's novel almost too perfectly. Best of all, in Emmanuèle Riva (star of Hiroshima, Mon Amour) it has a vivid Thérèse, that young woman so desperate to escape "the slow, sure, horrible suffocation of provincial life" that she poisons her husband...
Bernard survives, however. He even lies to save her, and as Thérèse rides home from court to try to tell him why she did it, her unhappy history is reviewed in flashbacks. Here, the prose narrative becomes a burdensome, bookish device, but Director Georges Franju finds visual poetry in sharp contrasts between the gentle Bordeaux countryside and the taut, terrible stillness of Thérèse's face. Actress Riva never fails him. On her wedding day, "the wild force seething inside," she stands in church like someone paralyzed by news of disaster...
Does Bernard forgive her? Never. In a final scene flickering with pathos, he breaks down and asks: "Was it because you hated me? You couldn't stand me?" Half-mockingly, Thérèse replies: "It was because of your pines ... I wanted them for myself. Perhaps it was to see a glimmer of uncertainty in your eyes." Author Mauriac, who wrote the dialogue for this first screen adaptation of his work, supplies no simple answer. A connoisseur of human corruption, he peoples his novels with characters sidetracked by evil in their blind search for God. On film...