Word: bedrooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Carni says that often the seeds for an eating disorder may be lying dormant in a student who arrives at college and then learns a type of food abuse. "Some girls come to college totally unequipped to deal with sharing a bedroom with a roommate and her boyfriend, and for solace they turn to food," she says. "In large dorms it is extremely easy to learn how to vomit or use laxatives because you see people around you doing...
...prescient questions: "Do you feel that you have been wronged by anyone in this Administration?" "No." "By the press?" ". . . Terribly irresponsible things have happened. At our house, which has been staked out every morning beginning at 5:30 by media people, trees have been climbed to look in bedroom windows. An attempt was made to interview my six-year-old daughter on the way to school. I stepped into a box of food garbage left by reporters one night...
...clergyman and educator, her mother boarded dogs; when one of them was barking, young Barbara was instructed to go "talk to it in your 'little' voice." Her "little" voice usually had the necessary tranquilizing effect; when it did not, she would bring the unhappy creature into her bedroom. At one time she had eleven four-legged roommates...
...Games ends the trilogy. The novel opens in 323 B.C. with Alexander, 33, dying of swamp fever in a Babylonian palace. Renault guides us through the property, noting its special features and listing the previous owners. Her description could be a model for Beverly Hills realtors: "Nebuchadrezzar's bedroom, once ponderously Assyrian, had been Pesianized by successive kings from Kyros on. Kambyses had hung its walls with the trophies of conquered Egypt; Darius the Great had sheathed its columns with gold and malachite: Xerxes had pegged across one side the embroidered robe of Athene, looted from the Parthenon...
...evidence of What I'm Going to Do, I Think (1969) and Beyond the Bedroom Wall (1975), Larry Woiwode is a writer worth listening to. Poppa John offers a great deal of noise and the whisper of a fine short story: an old man struggles to accept the long-ago death of his father, in preparation for facing his own. The novel's power lies here, at several removes from the small screen...