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...institution, the military tries to tend to what Major David Rabb of the 785th calls "the wounds that don't bleed." The military has mobilized mental-health units of psychiatrists, psychologists, occupational therapists, social workers, chaplains and nurses just behind the front lines. As the fighting has intensified over the past year, their number has increased. The goal, says Rabb, is "to let troops know they're not going crazy because they have some emotional and physical and psychological aftereffects of the traumatic events that they witnessed...
...salesmanship, closing the deal; it's that lovers swell with the sweet anticipation that this time will be different - perfect. And they will be different. They are, for a while: better than their best. It's at the bitter end of the affair that men, and women, tend to be at their worst, getting pathetic, shrill, vindictive. Especially if one of the pair feels wronged and righteous. No sadistic cop could grill a suspect with more brutal intensity than a man brings to the job of questioning the woman who's about to walk...
...think sex in a movie is boring," Nichols says, "just as a scene of someone eating dinner is not that interesting" His own favorite sex scenes tend to the suggestive. "Rita Hayworth shaking off that long glove in 'Gilda' is still as sexy as it gets in movies. The (famous) scene in 'Basic Instinct,' of Sharon Stone crossing and uncrossing her legs, is very sexy and very funny, primarily because it's about control and power. To me the sexiest thing I've ever seen is in 'Repulsion,' when Catherine Deneuve is lying on the bed and her sister...
...well as an encouraging herald to her future. “It definitely gave me inspiration in terms of my graduate school application...Harvard doesn’t give much positive confirmation of what you’re doing, it’s such a competitive school, and I tend to feel that I’m not doing all that exceptionally well,” she said...
...1920s, a business professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School postulated that markets are bullish when hemlines inch upward. And when a team from the old American Football League beats a National Football League squad in the professional gridiron championship, stocks tend to sour...