Word: talking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unlike Alien, where the cast is confined to monosyllables, the characters in Prophecy talk. A lot. Long time. Enough exposition for five giant monster movies. Everybody has a point of view; so did I--I munched my popcorn and thought about the blonde three rows down. When it comes to mixing horror and blatant social criticism, I prefer Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster...
...likely to prove kinder this time, since the production is housed in the intimate surroundings of Manhattan's American Place Theater. Father's Day is nothing if not intimate. Initially, it may have been ahead of its time. Playgoers are probably more receptive now to hearing women talk openly of sexual desires and needs...
When Victoria's adoptive parents, Albert and Isabelle Pittorino, learned of the secret, incestuous marriage, they pleaded with her to talk to a priest before she got pregnant and had "an imbecile child." Said the Pittorinos' lawyer, Margaret Mahoney: "We're all Catholics in this thing. We told her, 'You can't have a child, you can't abort. You have to get counseling.' " But Victoria insisted she had a right to marry her brother...
Klein and his colleagues have found that psychotherapy and the conventional antidepressants are rarely effective with the lovesick. But an 18-month study of ten patients, all women, showed that talk therapy combined with antidepressants called MAO (their chemical initials) inhibitors could shake them out of despair. Indeed, when these women were switched to placebos, five of them showed many of their old symptoms. Now Klein is seeking a $30,000 grant from New York State's Health Research Council for a more detailed, three-year study of the effects of MAO inhibitors on 60 hysteroids. Where will...
...assaults on his liver. Friends since their college days at Fordham, the conflicted personnel of George Higgins' newest novel do not really go any place between the book's first page and its last. But the two, who consume enough alcohol to drown W.C. Fields, manage to talk a good life. Their conversations, about sex and the lack of it, marriage, divorce and children, and Roman Catholic angst, ring as true as quarters on a bartop...