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...exposed that Marty and his sister Jackie have had an ongoing incestuous relationship for about ten years. Both have been mentally scarred in their own way, although Jackie obviously more visibly so with her wild fantasies of the Kennedy assassination. For Marty, home represents the insane and the chaotic, even as he is passionately drawn to the seductive charms of his family. He is searching for normalcy shown by his sweet, cookie-cutter girlfriend whose "breath smells like powdered sugar," but he is ultimately unable to realize...
...written, without gimmicks or jargon, and shows some familiarity with the real world. In all this it is an atypical self-help book. Stephen Covey, on the other hand, has the format down cold. His genius is for complicating the obvious, and as a result his books are graphically chaotic. Charts and diagrams bulge from the page. Sidebars and boxes chop the chapters into bite-size morsels. The prose buzzes with the cant phrases--empower, modeling, bonding, agent of change--without which his books would deflate like a blown tire. He uses more exclamation points than Gidget...
...time to pore over 10,000 pages in search of just the right nuggets of data? So AOL's new interface offers a nearly seamless link between the Web and AOL. Everything is as neatly organized as a small-town library. AOL has put a frame around the chaotic tumble of the Internet. The frame, Case hopes, will make the Net easier to use, simpler to understand and more carefully edited to keep kids from seeing things they shouldn't see. Above all, need we mention, the goal is to make the Net seem well worth paying...
...early arrival policy created a particularly chaotic situation last Wednesday morning, the first day of move-in. Early arrival students were forced out of temporary housing assignments by 8 a.m., but permanent fall housing assignments were not opened until 9 a.m., leaving hundreds of students stranded with their belongings outdoors during a persistent drizzle...
...have been thinking that marriage to Dodi, a man routinely described as a foreign playboy, would have been a public-relations blunder for Diana and a badly needed plus for them. For once it would make their tweedy rectitude seem appealing to the British public. When compared to the chaotic sequence of greed and blundering that took Diana's life, the thought of a well-organized conspiracy would be a comfort...