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This amusing, sometimes poignant look at the Hollywood detective genre of the 1940's and 1950's stars Robert Sacci as an unnamed former cop who retires, uses his life savings to pay for plastic surgery to transform his image into that of his idol, Humphrey Bogart, then sets up shop as a private eye under the name "Sam Marlowe".

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A very poignant example of how our attention ends up getting utilized.

The notion that the prenatal transmission of PTSD risk is adaptive is still speculative, but I find it rather poignant.

And it's a very powerful and poignant reminder of how the beauty of music has the ability to speak where words fail, in this case literally speak.

And this is a particularly poignant quote because Schumann himself suffered from schizophrenia and died in asylum.

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