Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were kids and our parents were drunk, it was our problem," a 21-year-old daughter of an alcoholic told TIME's Scott Brown. "Somehow it seemed that we should be super people and make our family healthy." Reliving painful childhood experiences among sympathetic listeners enables the C.O.A.s to feel emotions they had suppressed. Recalls Rokelle Lerner, a pioneer in the movement: "I had to learn to re-parent myself, to comfort the little girl inside...
...ever start to drink at all? The short answer is that initially it made me feel better. Alcohol numbed my self-awareness, the same trick that it performs for nonalcoholic drinkers at cocktail parties. The difference is that normal drinkers dull their self-consciousness only slightly, the better to socialize. I very quickly tried to send all my thoughts and feelings about myself to oblivion. Psychologically, I was undoubtedly depressed when I began to overcome my well-founded but ill-understood fears about alcohol: my father died when I was a sophomore. For whatever reason, I spent the better part...
Though some editors, like Frankel, contend that the press has "nothing to apologize for" because the "issue is the character and nature of our public officials," others feel anguish about the curdling effect on political debate. One undesirable consequence is that able candidates may pass up the fray. The prospect of intrusive coverage ransacking family history seems to have been a factor in discouraging several "possibles" from becoming "actuals," including New York Governor Mario Cuomo, Ohio Governor Richard Celeste and Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers. In interviews with young potential leaders, the New York Times last week found unease. "If things...
Perhaps more important, many women today earn substantial incomes and no longer feel compelled to marry a "good provider." In the era of Joan Collins and Linda Evans, perceptions have changed. "The age at which we look at women as still being attractive and sexy has risen," says Carole Lieberman, a Los Angeles psychiatrist...
...granted the philosophy that I subscribe to. They expect a woman to pick up a check as quickly as they would," says Shelly Mandell, 45, a lawyer in Los Angeles. "It doesn't insult their manhood if we make more money than they do." Nor do young partners feel threatened by a woman's aggressiveness in the bedroom. As a result, women contend, sex is better, more inventive. Though such pairings have long been regarded as "unnatural," supporters argue that they are biologically astute. Since men reach their sexual peak around the age of 20, and women attain theirs...