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Reviewing drama for TIME, with its worldwide readership, is very different from a local newspaper's theater beat. Says Henry: "Every review has to answer the question, Why is this important enough for us to tell our readers about it? At TIME we tend to limit ourselves to events of great literary significance, those involving very famous people, or on rare occasions, those we find simply irresistible fun." For every show he reviews in print, he estimates, he sees seven or eight more, on Broadway and off, across the country, in Canada and Europe...
...influenced, and perhaps overwhelmed, by the emotional problems of therapists. The bad news is that many patients are more damaged by their therapists than they realize, and some actually end up seeking out one disturbed therapist after another. The good news is that patients, on an unconscious level, often tend to be aware of the erratic behavior of those who are treating them. "Mostly what happens is that patients perceive the madness of their therapists and try to correct it," Langs says. "Unconscious attempts by patients to cure the errant therapist are quite common...
...refusals do you know that Judith Singer (Susan Sarandon) is not only a likable woman but a good one. She is very nearly the only lady in her Long Island suburb who has resisted the oleaginous charms of Dr. Bruce Fleckstein, a periodontist whose hands tend to roam from his drill and who has a taste for taking pictures of his female patients that reveal more than the condition of their root canals. Judith even has the sweetly articulated moral fiber to resist the more attractive proposals of the nice police detective (Raul Julia) who is investigating Dr. Bruce...
...game was tennis, but the final score was Czechmate. No two Europeans had ever won the U.S. Open singles championships in the same year. But last week Czechoslovakia's Ivan Lendl, 25, and Hana Mandlikova, 23, hoisted the silver high after overcoming a shared reputation as temperamental talents who tend to choke in major matches. This time, despite a couple of 90 degrees -plus afternoons, they showed no signs of wilting against the best players in the U.S. Mandlikova outpowered Chris Evert Lloyd, 30, in the semis (4-6, 6-3, 6-3), then in the finals wrested the title...
Today's group says the divestment issue does not elicit the same kind of response from students, who tend to see South Africa as an aberrant case rather than the symptom of a larger societal problem...