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...Americans who danced on a slippery geopolitical slope that led straight into the Big Muddy. But they are mainly three points on a triangle of love, lust and rancor in a land where emotion, no less than pan-national idealism, revs the heart rate and clouds the vision. Steal a man's woman or connive in a faraway nation's destiny at your peril. Bedfellows make strange politics in this cautionary tale, which is as thoughtful as it is handsomely acted. Caine's subtle, bold performance should guarantee him an aisle seat on Oscar night...
Nineteenth century psychiatrists coined a term for the irresistible impulse to swipe: they called it kleptomania, from the Greek kleptein, to steal. It was applied after the fact to Jane Austen's aunt, who was tried in 1800 for pocketing fancy white lace. By the 1920s Freudian psychologists, always attuned to underlying sexual drives, were comparing the rush from a successful filch to the pleasure of an orgasm. Experts today are more inclined to compare recreational larceny to thrill-seeking behaviors like bungee jumping or to addictions like drug abuse or compulsive gambling...
Textbook kleptomaniacs will steal an item and immediately throw it away. It is the act, not the object, that satisfies their impulse. "Kleptomaniacs might have started stealing on a dare as kids," says Dr. Jon Grant, a director of the Impulse Control Disorder clinic at the University of Minnesota Medical School, "but it becomes so pleasurable that the addiction takes over their actions...
Women tend to steal for pleasure more than men, but that gender disparity might reflect a reporting bias: women are more likely to be perceived as unbalanced. Kleptomaniacs also tend to suffer from other mental disorders, such as anxiety or depression. As a rule, they steal regularly--on a weekly, and sometimes daily, basis. And most important, they are well aware that what they are doing is wrong; they tend to experience intense regret after the deed is done...
...habitual offender. And she hardly needed the items she took. "If you look at what Ryder was doing to those clothes--cutting holes in them to get the tags off--do you think she was going to wear them?" says Dr. Marcus Goldman, author of Kleptomania: The Compulsion to Steal--What Can Be Done? "They probably would have ended up in a heap in her closet...