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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lies down in 8 in. of water laced with 800 Ibs. of dissolved Epsom salts and heated to 93°F. He glides back and forth once or twice, feeling weightless because of the high buoyancy, then settles back, secure in the knowledge that he is one of the earliest consumers of a modish new psychic treatment: tank therapy...
Donovan apparently was among Reagan's earliest choices for his Cabinet, but announcement of the appointment was held up by the requirements of the Ethics in Government Act. While other appointees whose wealth consists of diverse holdings can satisfy the act by establishing so-called blind trusts, Donovan was forced to divest himself of his $22 million in Schiavone stock...
Today, animals and quasi-animals remain a child's earliest modes of transportation to the province of fantasy. Sesame Street, whose pervasive commercialism makes Disney's appear dwarfish, provides a world of tactile monsters; Sendak's night creatures and Arnold Lobel's Homeric tales of friendship between Frog and Toad, Dr. Seuss's Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz, Richard Scarry's Best Mother Goose Ever, and the omnipresent Snoopy and Woodstock are leaders in a procession that could populate a fleet of arks. Still, if anything appears with a tail or a mane, a small human...
...minimalist risk, of course, is chopping away the meat with the fat. Syrie Maugham, the great minimalist interior designer, discarded her earliest works, stark unpainted rooms devoid of furniture and even windows, for what later became her classic minimalist style, rooms done completely in white in which enormous windows played a crucial role. Likewise, Mamet progresses in Reunion to achieve the depth that got lost in Dark Pony, and expands his message to the maximum...
Imbedded in the memory of every living thing, and reinforced from the earliest years by parental instruction and example, are the codes that determine how that creature will act. At birth, as a gift from the most primitive part of his brain, a child knows the elements of survival: he must eat, drink and reproduce. His early life is filled with the imposition of rituals: toilet training, religious instruction, social communication and compromise. By the time he is an adult, he knows most of the games people play: how to dress and cook, shake hands, argue with a colleague, plead...