Word: esteems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does with his body. He walks in sections, as if he had been pulled apart and then basted back together. He can freeze into an exclamation point or, doing his trademark hula, go all loose and noodle-y. Imagine a goyish Jerry Lewis with less ego and more self-esteem and you have Carrey. Crossbreed Lewis' The Nutty Professor with Batman and you have The Mask, with Carrey breathing life into director Charles Russell's tatty fable...
...assertion that 150,000 American women die each year in a "holocaust" of anorexia; the number is closer to 100. Similarly, Sommers claims that feminists exaggerate the extent of rape, wife battering and discrimination against girls in the classroom. She criticizes a much publicized study finding that girls' self-esteem plunges at puberty. For one thing, the same study finds that black girls have much higher self-esteem than whites, which raises reasonable questions about what, if anything, "self- esteem" means as a predictor of future success...
...work. A study of more than 12,000 young Britons found that obese girls and short boys at age 16 earn far less than others when they reach age 23. The researchers were unable to determine if the cause was job discrimination or internal factors like low self-esteem...
...clear time slots." To help their sons, who take Ritalin, the Fells have employed tutors, psychotherapists and a speech and language specialist. None of this comes cheap: they estimate their current annual ADD-related expenses at $15,000. "Our goal is to get them through school with their self-esteem intact," says Bonnie...
...family without ever owning up to it. Millions adhere to creeds that are militantly "pro-family." But at the same time millions flock to therapy groups that offer to heal the "inner child" from damage inflicted by family life. Legions of women band together to revive the self-esteem they lost in supposedly loving relationships and to learn to love a little less. We are all, it is often said, "in recovery." And from what? Our families, in most cases...