Word: cookers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...once students leave the pressure-cooker of college, their eating problems often decrease, Heatherton says...
Throughout all of this chaos, it is Willum's playhouse that is invaded. As a set designed like an Intimist painting, it's an apt pressure cooker--a fine place to have a nervous breakdown. Stokes shows two sides of Willum: one is calm, as in the scene where he delivers a story laying on the floor and looking dreamy; the other one is much more neurotic, shoulders heavy with burden, sweating, panting, and turning more and more pale with each new conundrum. Throughout most of the play, Stokes leans towards the latter disposition, letting on that while...
...prerevolutionary furniture is carefully preserved, and a 50-year- old refrigerator is stocked with black-market meat bought with dollars sent by relatives in Miami. Although his oven no longer works, he is an expert, like all Cubans, at resolviendo (resolving the problem): he bakes cakes in a pressure cooker...
...being made into a psychodrama," remarks classics professor Gregory Nagy. But according to UHS psychiatrist Dr. Irving M. Allen, grade-anxiety is real. "It's a problem. People... aren't doing as well as they'd like to... You certainly get the impression that Harvard is a pressure cooker." But, Allen warns, victims of the B+ blues "weren't made at Harvard. It long precedes Harvard... [They] come to Harvard full of desire to get A's." Pasula agrees that the B+ blues have deeper psychic origins. "Most people who got [in] here got A's in high school...
...editing. He is a gentleman, and I do mean gentle. He treated me like a queen." Stern, on the other hand, is "a slave driver." To crash-edit his book last summer, Regan spent weeks living in the guesthouse of his Long Island home. "It was pressure-cooker intense, very creative and very interesting. He is an extremely driven man. I needed a permission slip to go to the bathroom. He is a maniac, this...