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...such recovered memories are indeed false, where do they originate? From two sources, critics say: the popular culture and misguided or inept therapy. Sensational tales about recovered memories of incest have been grist for celebrity-magazine cover stories. And repressed-memory incest and satanic- ritual-abuse victims have been featured prominently on Geraldo, Oprah, Sally Jessy Raphael and other daytime TV talk shows...
...time. The media loves it because Coupland is thoughtful enough to turn the margins into a manual for the new age, full of improvised jargon and invented slang: "McJob," "recurving" and "cryptotechnophobia." Never mind that no human tongue, including Coupland's, has ever spoken these words; they are comforting grist for the media mill...
...sees the funny side of things that happened in our relationship, both good and bad," Greenblatt says. "To the extent that I have seen things I have done become grist in her mill, I think it's funny...
...adviser. Though the forum is shaping up as a centerpiece of Clinton's transition, the record of such talkfests has often been meager. Gerald Ford's 1974 meeting of the minds produced mainly red-and-white WIN (Whip Inflation Now) buttons that proved to be little more than good grist for Johnny Carson monologues. "If it's just blah-blah-blah, it's a total waste of time," says Hewlett-Packard chairman John Young, a Clinton supporter. "But if it's eight or 10 people fine-tuning, framing and giving direction to a policy, that's another thing altogether...
...small town. Instead, he experienced his first disorientation in this restored life with two parents. Roger Clinton's anger was explosive when he drank. In one of his rages, he fired a gun into the wall and was taken off to jail -- a searing memory for Clinton, and grist for the busy rumor mills of Hope...