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...other characters exacerbate David's dilemma. Jonathan Fisher convincingly plays an alcoholic who wants to prevent David from repeating his mistakes. C. Michael Rodriguez is both wryly funny and poignant (without overdoing it) in his role as the fatalistic, wheelchair-ridden cynic. Both Fisher and Rodriguez torment David by making him believe that his successes can all be attributed to luck...
...they indulge his attraction to carnival rides. During a trip to Germany when he was deputy CIA director, Gates detoured to a local fairground, security detail in tow, and rode a roller coaster called the Triple Loop. A man of plain tastes and middlebrow origins, Gates likes to torment elitists at the CIA and the State Department, whom he derides as "guys with last names for first names." He tells corny jokes and Russian jokes. And he is relentlessly practical in a way that sometimes amuses his friends. While driving down Constitution Avenue in a convertible, for example, Gates...
...letter from a Chinese woman to her American friend reflected her torment and tears. "I told you I wish a baby girl, because nothing can compare with one's love of a baby, especially mother and daughter," she wrote in broken English. Instead of bringing joy, however, the birth of a daughter was destroying her family. "My husband wants to divorce me," she continued. "When he knew the baby was a girl, he left quickly." Reluctant to blame only her husband, she pointed to her in-laws. "He is the only boy, so his having a son is more important...
...cunning hint from Hill that his work, like its Middle Ages namesake, is more concerned with moral and metaphysical conundrums than with clues to some mundane crime. The final scenes, set aptly in a Gothic cathedral, convincingly merge a police procedural with a plunge into a soul in torment...
...more. Among the more successful cases is Burt Schneider, 48, an author from Tucson, who sought help after going through multiple extramarital affairs. "Up to a point I could control it," he says. "After that I couldn't." Schneider learned to confront his problem and share his secret torment with his wife Jennifer, an internist. Dr. Schneider, who entered a self-help program for relatives of addicts, wrote about her experiences in the book Back from Betrayal...