Word: frozen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been. Sufferers have traditionally been met with disgust by doctors, who find their self-injuring offensive. Therapists are often unwelcoming too, mistakenly labeling such people suicidal or dismissing them as "borderline," a catchall category for manipulative, difficult patients with intractable disorders. In reality, the authors say, cutters are people frozen in trauma. More than half of self-injurers are victims of sexual abuse, and most report emotionally abusive or neglected childhoods, the strains of which send them into an emotional grave. "To me, it wasn't the self-injury that was shocking but the things that brought them to this...
...Harkin Rule. In 1992 Iowa Senator Tom Harkin decided to seek the presidency; his fellow Democrats left the Hawkeye State to the native Hawkeye. While that left Iowa's hoteliers and restaurateurs in despair, it liberated a few thousand of us from the joys of standing ankle-deep in frozen mud while a candidate talked to four shivering Iowans, seven cows and 35 camera crews...
...California, whose primary in 2000 will be held on March 7. Surely, surely the most populous state in the Union will absorb weeks--nay, months--of every candidate's time, once New Hampshire is off the boards. What does it mean if Mr. Smith runs? Instead of the frozen tundra of Manchester, the sandy beaches of Montecito; instead of a frozen glass of apple cider from Nashua, a fine Cabernet from Napa...
...Boheme, with Jane Eaglan as Mimi, the Met had to build a bed that sunk with her weight to help some of the extra bulk. Hoelterhoff fills the chapter out with a mock "Diva Diet," which begins with a slice of toast for breakfast and ends with an "entire frozen Sara Lee cheesecake" for a late-night snack...
...Blue Jays, 1992 AL Championship Series: Toronto Mayor Rowlands offered a frozen turkey for every run the A's scored (if the A's won). Oakland Mayor Harris offered a live goose and an MC Hammer doll for every Blue...