Word: blossoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...future episode of NBC's "Blossom," another teen-oriented program, Blossom refers a friend suspected of having an eating disorder to a past bulimic, who explains her cycle of chronic dieting and purging...
...plains of Africa about 4 million years ago, in the early days of the human species, that the notion of romantic love probably first began to blossom -- or at least that the first cascades of neurochemicals began flowing from the brain to the bloodstream to produce goofy grins and sweaty palms as men and women gazed deeply into each other's eyes. When mankind graduated from scuttling around on all fours to walking on two legs, this change made the whole person visible to fellow human beings for the first time. Sexual organs were in full display, as were other...
...Japan's northern border waters that was seized by the Soviets in the waning days of World War II. Tokyo wants those territories back, and part of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa's strategy is to woo the 25,000 Russian residents with hints of the good life that would blossom under Japan's rule...
Composer Daniel Levine, who has never written a musical before, has yet to develop a distinctive sound: there are stylistic echoes of everything from Blossom Time to Sondheim, although the wistfulness is genuine enough in the title character's Act I showstopper, I'm Lost. Levine's writing partner, Peter Kellogg, also a beginner, deftly focuses the story on Anna's forced choice between romantic love for Vronsky and maternal love for her child by her husband Karenin. But Kellogg nearly wrecks the enterprise with lyrics so blandly generic that they convey hardly any specifics of character -- especially frustrating when...
...Anyone who comes into a marriage with a teenage child needs to exercise extra caution about incest," warns psychiatrist Domeena Renshaw of Loyola School of Medicine, in Chicago. "That child is beginning to blossom, and will sometimes compete with the natural parent." Freudian theory holds that the earliest erotic impulses are incestuous; young boys unconsciously rival their father for their mother's affection, while daughters covet their father, a normal process in development known, in boys and girls respectively, as the Oedipus and Electra complexes. One therapist wonders whether Soon-Yi may never have resolved such early longings and might...