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...Beast: A Reckoning with Depression (Putnam; 286 pages; $23.95), Tracy Thompson, a reporter for the Washington Post, provides a harrowing chronicle of her battle against the demon she calls "a psychic freight train of roaring despair." Thompson is uncommonly thoughtful on many levels--from her fearful childhood in a Southern fundamentalist family, to her confused entanglement with a harshly supportive man, to her hospitalization in a mental ward and her sunlit rescue by Prozac. Thompson's reporter's eye is unsparing, and she writes with tough grace. About one of her more hopeful moments: "Life did not get easier...
Kappa Alpha, Theta, President, Vice-President, Administration; Small Claims Advisory Service; Expressions Dance Company; City Step, Publicity Manager; Demon Magazine...
Thus in the concrete courtyard outside the cafeteria at St. Aloysius Gonzaga--before classes, between classes, in any weather, in the demon energy of our hormones--we played basketball. A boy would launch a set shot from the outside that rose steeply and dropped like a mortar shell. Swish! Another teenage pregnancy averted...
THOUGH THE ATF IS THE PET DEMON OF THE MILITANT right, it is the FBI that handled the violent conclusions of two infamous confrontations: the 1992 standoff at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and the 1993 siege in Waco, Texas. This week two House subcommittees will open hearings into the Waco assault; in the fall, hearings will delve into the FBI "shoot-on-sight" orders that some critics believe were responsible for the Idaho death of Vicki Weaver, the wife of white separatist Randy Weaver...
...storytelling abilities. The story she tells, based on a tale from the Ramayana and brought to screen by computer technology, is the high point of the movie. Amazing special effects create a surreal landscape, studded with green thorns, where a blue-painted hero, Prince Rama, battles a multi-headed demon for his Asiatic Rapunzel. Told is segments, woven through the rest of the movie, the legend is paralleled to the separation of sara an her missing father. Prince Rama is even played by the same actor as Captain Crewe. Even the most venomous anti-Freudian has to ask: Electra complex...