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...female friend recently suffered a classic contemporary dilemma: What to furnish the apartment with first, a couch or a video-games console? A couch is nice to sit on, but a console is "a man magnet," she decided. "No male can resist the challenge." I knew what she meant. For mindless fun, you can't beat a console evening. Invite your friends over, gather round the TV, crack open a six-pack and get down to the serious business of knocking the stuffing out of them. It does wonders for your social life...
...will await the verdict of housing lottery gods, maybe spending that fateful night curled up in your future roommates' room, on an odd-smelling couch that has been who-knows-where...
...could the computer screen's cold glare ever replace a therapist's caring gaze? It may be hard to imagine, but for a growing number of people dissatisfied with traditional talk therapy, the convenience and anonymity of the Internet beat $100 sessions on the couch hands down. After all, if people are willing to bare their innermost feelings to a newfound love online, why not discuss deep-seated anxieties that way as well? Some 150 counselors listed on the website metanoia.org/imhs offer online therapy by videoconferencing, e-mail or live chat. Skeptics say the lack of nonverbal cues makes...
Distractions, distractions. Everything in Diana Ross's midtown Manhattan apartment vies for your attention: a zebra-patterned couch, brightly colored Warhol portraits of Ross, a table full of black panther statuettes, a large gold Hindu figurine. One thing holds your focus: Ross herself. The 55-year-old Motown great looks fabulous--slim, smiling, sexy. She seems as breezily radiant as she ever was, flipping back her wavy black hair after every other sentence. One wonders why it took so long for the Oscar-nominated star of such big-screen films as Lady Sings the Blues (1972) and the TV movie...
Schlant boldly puts a society's literature on the couch, but her underlying meaning is also strong: only individuals are capable of feeling grief and the release that comes with mourning the loss of innocence. Change, therefore, must come one good book and one generous gesture at a time...