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...terms (and for a thrifty $16 million or so), the ploy works: it's the societal psychosis from which the lovers flee and to which they ultimately succumb. Luhrmann, an Australian who pretty much let his camera go nuts in the egregiously overrated Strictly Ballroom, here makes reasonable, imaginative decisions that are, arguably, true to Shakespeare. "His stories are full of sex, violence, tragedy, comedy because he was, first of all, a great entertainer," Luhrmann says. "His audience was 3,000 drunken, fighting people, bear baiters and prostitutes." Sounds like a Friday-night crowd at a big-city 'plex...
...cost of tuition, books, room and board (worth about $12,000 at a large state university like Tennessee). But who can blame them if they feel resentful at the millions of dollars being made off their talents? No wonder so many turn pro so early; no wonder so many succumb to Faustian handshakes with agents. University of Maryland president William E. Kirwan, who is heading the NCAA special committee, says, "We realize we underestimated the magnitude of the problem. We estimate that 90% of those who would be picked in the first round of a pro draft have had some...
...Columbia University clinical psychologist whose research led to the discovery of the Huntington's gene. Because of their decision to take the test, she says, some 50,000 Americans are living without symptoms but with the dismaying knowledge that they have the Huntington's gene and will someday succumb to the disease...
...impending doom--seem so dire and life-threatening that patients frequently turn up in emergency rooms convinced they are having a heart attack or going insane. Thirty percent of the 2.4 million Americans with panic disorder go on to develop agoraphobia, the fear of leaving home lest they succumb to panic on the freeway, in a store or at a concert. Some 20% of patients attempt suicide...
...high field trips. Excuses aside, I was afraid of this thing called Culture, doubting I'd fit the bill. I couldn't imagine having to pick out a skirt in the morning that was long enough for work and short enough for Happy Hour. I was not going to succumb...