Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...manipulation and alienating acerbity, between sly concealment of her growing disorientation and frank revelry in it. She appears to have two families: the real ones are a dried-up vicar husband, a sanctimonious sister-in-law and an estranged adult son. The imaginary figures, who burst in accompanied by golden light and birdsong, are beautiful, adoring, suave, rich and effortlessly brilliant -- a shallow bourgeois fantasy of upper-class life, disturbing not only because the wife yearns for this escape but because she fills it with such empty pretense. In one harrowing scene, she gradually loses the / conviction that these...
...Affluenza can be acute, striking lottery winners or newly minted doctors and M.B.A.s. It can also be a chronic and pervasive condition in families where riches extend through generations. Says Aryeh Maidenbaum, a psychoanalyst in New York City: "The children grow up in a sheltered environment, a kind of golden ghetto without the walls...
Clarkson (9-9-3 ECAC) stumbled into the league playoffs, which begin on campus sites next weekend, because of Dartmouth's 4-2 loss to St. Lawrence last night. The Golden Knights are now in seventh place in the league. Eight teams will participate in the ECAC tournament...
Clarkson's mascot, the Golden Knight, proved himself an unchivalrous creature between periods, taunting Devin by drooping a white flag in front of him, and leading cheers of "sieve, sieve." Crimson defenseman Jerry Pawloski apparently had enough of the Knight's antics and shoved him aside before the team's huddle to begin the final period...
Defensively, the Golden Knights have one of the top goaltenders in the league, last year's ECAC Rookie of the Year John Fletcher. He owns a .907 save percentage and a 3.22 goals-against average...