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Outside, there was a chilly London night. Inside a Georgia accent interrupted the click of chips and slap of cards. "Hey, Doc, you got a winning pill?" Doc looked back across the table. His reply was short and savage: "I'd be taking it myself." Then Doc turned back to the blackjack table. He lost $240 in the next four minutes...
Mastroianni's crisis begins with an Indonesian airline stewardess (Seyna Seyn). Lured to a hotel rendezvous between planes, the sylph announces at intervals that time is flying, finally swallows a tiny pill and phones downstairs to ask that the desk call back in exactly 38 minutes. Her cool acquiescence chills Mastroianni, and ultimately sends him to a sick psychiatrist whose advice is to love dangerously or not at all. Mastroianni's subsequent Misses and near-Misses include a lady lion tamer (Liana Orfei) who mixes her work with pleasure, an accursed village prostitute (Liana's cousin, Moira...
...beads (green for safe days, black for unsafe). Children upset the arithmetic by toying with the beads. Some women mistook the strings for a charm against conception; others shunned them because they resembled the necklaces Hindus hang around the necks of cows as decoration. Other methods-even the pill-proved too costly or required too much medical supervision. More than 800,000 persons have submitted to voluntary sterilization since 1956, but this has not substantially reduced the country's birth rate...
...years after it appeared, German Theologian Herbert Doms was tentatively proposing a personalist theology of marriage that gave primacy to love rather than childbearing. Although the Vatican at the time criticized Doms's theories, papal statements on marriage were soon to shift emphasis. Even as he denounced "the pill" as immoral in 1951, Pope Pius XII strongly affirmed the spiritual values of sex. "The conjugal act," he said, "is a personal action, which, according to the word of the Scriptures, effects the union 'in one flesh alone...
...DEFENDERS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).*Douglas Campbell plays a pharmacist and Teresa Wright his junkie wife in "The Pill Man." Repeat...