Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First, the hockey player. Dino Ciccarelli, an especially unruly forward with the Minnesota North Stars, was jailed for a day in Toronto for clubbing the Maple Leafs' Luke Richardson twice before punching him in the mouth. Known for stark behavior (already on probation for indecent exposure), Ciccarelli was judged to have exceeded the National Hockey League's acceptable level of savagery, not an easy thing to do. Though hockey players have come before judges before, Dino is thought to be the first one directed to a real penalty box after an on-ice assault...
...solution, say many counselors, is to bring the problem into the open and force couples to confront their behavior. "A lot of violence is accepted as normal," says David Adams, a coordinator of the Dating Violence Intervention Project in Cambridge, Mass. "What we find in talking to high school kids is that they don't characterize a lot of what they're experiencing -- grabbing and slapping -- as violence." In order to raise the consciousness of young daters, the project's acting troupe visits local schools and puts on skits that present alternatives to courtship altercations. For example, a jealous...
Unfortunately, many couples affected by aggression refuse to seek help, often because they don't view their behavior as deviant. But, say experts, the cycle of violence should be taken seriously. "We need to look at the origins of marital abuse," says Therapist Koval. "The roots of marriage are not in the ceremony and the honeymoon but in the dating period." The best remedy of all may be for couples to take literally a favorite slogan of 1960s peace marchers: MAKE LOVE...
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...about the enemies he saw surrounding him. Nor is such speculation confined to Johnson. In the final throes of Watergate, the tortured Richard Nixon could not focus on meetings, wandered the White House halls at night and sank to his knees in prayer with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, behavior that suggested to some that he had lost all touch with reality...