Word: hobson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Britain's Minister of War John Profumo, husband of refined movie star Valerie Hobson, has been sharing the sexual favors of teen tart Christine Keeler with Soviet spy Eugene Ivanov . . . Keeler's blond pal Mandy Rice- Davies, 18, declared in court that she had bedded Lord Astor and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. . . . Mariella Novotny, who claims John F. Kennedy among her lovers, hosted an all-star orgy where a naked gent, thought to be film director and Prime Minister's son Anthony Asquith, implored guests to beat him . . . Osteopath and artist Stephen Ward, whose portrait subjects include eight members...
...that a Sunday edition is the newspaper's only hope for survival. The reason: while daily newspaper readership has stagnated all across the U.S. in the past decade, Sunday readership has grown. Sunday editions account for 40% to 50% of the advertising revenue of many dailies. "It's a Hobson's choice," says Gary Hoenig, a veteran New York newspaperman who recently left Newsday to edit a new industry trade magazine called NewsInc. "The Post can't succeed without a Sunday paper, but it is very hard to win over Sunday readers...
...Hobson says that bizzareness in people's dreams takes many different forms, such as total confusion, loss of clarity in thinking and rapid scene changes. "We found that there was a lot of cognitive uncertainty--people have trouble remembering what is going on in their dreams," he says...
...While Hobson and McCarley say they do not disagree with Freud's theory of dream expression, they assert that the REM stage involves more complex activities than rehashing past experiences...
...speaking against symbolic interpretation of dreams," Hobson says. "Sometimes there's no need to do interpretation at all. What we're thinking about in our sleep is often embarrassingly obvious. But there is enough going on at face value to keep us busy without getting into symbol stuff...