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Depression and anxiety again appeared to be the most usual symptom formations patients brought to us. Thus, we noted a return to these commonplace and endemic problems at rates of incidence that were much like those regularly seen in the past except during the years when acting-out instead of internalizing conflict was so much in vogue...
...exploits old people and their problems for the sake of cheap tears and an occasional laugh. Too much of the movie's laughter is directed at Harry instead of against his tormentors. Harry seems ridiculous for urinating in the potted plant, not the police who arrest him. The only symptom of old age Harry displays is incontinence, and, typically, it's played for giggles...
Future Furor. Of course, nothing will be easy now, and the furor promises to be intense. TerHorst's swift resignation was a symptom of what may lie ahead. Said terHorst: "I couldn't in good conscience support the President's decision, even though I knew he took the action in good conscience." Republicans, who had delightedly looked forward to the deflation of Watergate as a major issue in November, now dejectedly faced the prospect of defending to the voters Ford's grant of pardon...
...volatile that no one can guarantee against a reversal of the reversal that would send prices up again. But most economists think that the recent drop is no fluke. Thus, the downturn should allay widespread fears that the roaring commodity-price spiral of the past two years was a symptom of a global inflationary fever that might never break...
...head with a meat axe." Without Jan Lewis's acid-coated delivery and Hutson's wry cool on stage, Coward's play would never escape the quagmire it so richly deserves. Mark Swiney, Carla Dragoni, and Patsy Culbert portray brilliantly the assorted pathologies of organic brain damage, a chronic symptom of Coward's background characters...