Word: flashings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...region's two potential flash points are Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, where postcommunist leaders seem unable to find common ground with either democratic or Islamic movements. President Rakhman Nabiyev of Tajikistan has been under a virtual state of siege since last month, when supporters of the opposition began to gather in the tens of thousands outside the parliament building to urge dismissal of the republic's legislature of holdover party officials. Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov received a warning signal of his own in | January, when students protesting the liberalization of prices clashed with police, resulting in two deaths. Muslim extremists...
...they retrieved from his Boston apartment were children's books such as Goodnight, Moon, inscribed in Bean-Bayog's hand to "the baby"; tapes in which the therapist instructs Lozano to repeat 10 times, "I'm your Mom, and I love you, and you love me very, very much"; flash cards made by the psychiatrist, one of which refers to missing "the phenomenal sex"; photographs taken by Lozano that show Bean-Bayog snuggling a stuffed bear; and a series of letters and stories she wrote to him playing out fantasies about maternal love and devotion. More perplexing still are dozens...
...turned to it only after routine therapy failed and after Lozano suggested that he found the notion of a loving, nonabusive mother comforting. Role-playing mother and son, she says, was a useful method of calming his behavior and helping him confront traumatic childhood memories. As for the flash card mentioning "phenomenal sex," the psychiatrist says it was a statement dictated by Lozano referring to his relationship with a girlfriend. She admits the sexual fantasies are her own dreams but says they were never meant to be shown to Lozano: he broke into her office and stole them, she contends...
...like Schwarzenegger -- perfect teeth, perfect body, full head of hair." He can be a pop nostalgist who croons old Billy Joel songs, a country nostalgist who traces his lineage to the backwoodsy George Jones, or a rock nostalgist who remembers what the back and forth between a jumping-jack-flash performer and his audience is supposed to be like. "Like great sex," he says, "where you get wild and frenzied, then turn that around quick to something gentle, tender and slow, and then get wild and crazy again and just keep doing that over and over until...
...Seattle sound is cussed, aggressive, incisively individualistic, and it comes, like matching tie and handkerchief, with its own attitude: cut down on flash, look regular, sound loud and sound off. "People here do what they want," says Terry Date, producer of Badmotorfinger for Soundgarden, which has toured with Guns N' Roses. "There aren't a whole lot of love songs that come out of here. It's not happy music. It definitely has a dark side...