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With three top players returning in the same position, the odds shrink even more...
...civil-libertarian instincts of mental health advocates, while conservatives counted up the tax dollars saved. But an optimistically promised second stage of deinstitutionalization was not so easy to deliver: follow-up care in the community frequently failed to materialize. The number of mental patients in U.S. institutions did shrink, though, from a peak of 560,000 in 1955 to some 146,000 in 1984. In New York, the number declined from 93,000 in 1955 to about 20,000 today. One-fifth to one-third of America's homeless are now considered mentally...
Poor Polly. She's 31 going on 13, a gamine klutz working as a temp, famished for experiences that will match her soaring fantasies. She takes photographs and records herself on videotape; she is her own and only pal, admirer and shrink. Polly (Sheila McCarthy) needs to find a heroine -- say, the supersoignee curator of an art gallery (Paule Baillargeon). Then she needs to feel betrayed by this designated goddess so she can finally locate her strengths...
...always teddibly English and utterly U (though Connery was a working- class Scot). To a nation that had seen its empire shrink in rancor, and its secret service embarrassed by the Burgess-Maclean and Profumo scandals, the notion of a British agent saving the free world was a tonic made in Fantasyland. The Beatles might have made Britain swinging for the young, but Bond was a travel-poster boy for the earmuff brigade. The Bond films even put a few theme songs (including Paul McCartney's Live and Let Die) on the pop charts. But their signal influence was closer...
...American museums had to subsist on Government money like the Louvre or the National Gallery in London, all would shrink, and many of the best would never have got started. Names like Whitney, Guggenheim, Phillips, Freer and Frick attest to the role played by the private collector in creating the public institution. Today more than ever the one-person museum, named for the man or woman who assembled it and put it in its own building, is a ruling fantasy of the ambitious collector. Why settle for your name on a plaque in the Met when for a few extra...