Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fulfilling my mother's predictions. I was no good and I'd never be any good. I went to Mass every Sunday, and every Sunday I'd say, 'I'll confess.' I couldn't. I'd go into the confession box and choke on the words. When you abuse your child, it seems like you're watching someone else do it. There is guilt, horror, pain. Society need not hate us. We hate ourselves. No one hates an abusing parent more than the abusing parent...
Sherry's father would take her out of school one day a week and drive her to "secret places," including motels. He would pretend that he was going to hang her or he would put her in a coffin-like box before abusing her sexually. Still, she says, "when father wasn't being horrible, he was the person in the family who loved me most." She blames her mother for not ending her torment. Sherry developed multiple personalities, married and divorced an abusive man ("He was going to kill me"), has a teen-age son, now works...
...know, because you keep me in the dark. I have not received any newspapers in five years. If people are happy, I'll just go home to my province and retire there, but if they are unhappy, then you can bet I'll be mounting a soap box. So if you think you've done well, release me. If not, don't release me, because it would only exacerbate the situation." He wanted me to give my word that I was throwing in the towel. Finally he said, "The law will have to take its course...
...opposing Mao's radical views, his published thoughts avoid stirring renewed factionalism by stressing the relevance of much of Mao's thought to the present. At the same time, in blunt and peppery language, Deng denounces Mao's autocratic ways as "feudal" (see box) and the destructive Cultural Revolution as "a big error...
...pair of comedies dominate the late-summer box office. National Lampoon's Vacation is a lame, hard-to-sit-through farce starring Chevy Chase as a food-additives specialist who takes his '50s sitcom family on a calamitous cross-country car trip. The other hit, Paul Brickman's Risky Business, is yet another entry in the lamentable tits-and-zits genre of teen-age sex comedies: a young man finds love and success by becoming a pimp. Still, this film is deftly made, the humor nicely understated, the leading actors (Tom Cruise and Rebecca de Mornay) smart...