Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...characters are Emma (Jenny Agutter), her husband Robert (Paul Benedict), and his best friend Jerry (Richard Jordan '60), and the situation is a seven-year affair between Jerry and Emma. In Robert, Emma and Jerry we have intellectuals creating worlds in their heads to avoid the consequences of their behavior. They think they can limit the moral dimensions of their actions by controlling the flow of information...
...says Douglas Watts, staff counsel for the American Newspaper Publishers Association. Expungement may hinder police trying to develop leads. It also could be used to shield police conduct from public scrutiny. Asks Jack Landau, head of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: "How can you monitor the behavior of law enforcement if records are sealed?" Some businessmen, moreover, have legitimate grounds for digging into the past of prospective employees. Concedes University of Nebraska Law Professor Richard Harnsberger, a proponent of expungement: "If someone has been convicted of embezzlement, a bank has a reason to know before offering...
Alan M. Zukerman '81, a CHUL delegate from Dunster House, said he was "disillusioned by the administration's behavior" in the meeting. "It was childish for Dean Fox to withdraw all the proposals that had just been made simply because a vote didn't go the way he wanted," he added...
This skittery manner has worked for Di rector Roeg in the past, notably in Don 't Look Now, but it does not really suit a study in obsessional behavior. As anyone who has ever suffered that peculiar form of mental torment knows, it tends to fo cus the mind narrowly and dully, rather as an aching tooth does, permitting it few enlivening leaps or juxtapositions of the sort this movie keeps attempting...
...thinks his pregnant wife has drowned herself; an awkwardly large party is assembled to drag the Pearl River. Of course, no body is found, but Doc, who owns the net, pronounces himself pleased with the expedition: "I've never been on a better river-dragging, or seen better behavior. If it took catching catfish to move the Rock of Gibraltar, I believe this outfit could move...