Word: iiis
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...ring true. So do his poignant yearnings, not for literary immortality but for the sweet sleep of mortal oblivion. When Twain, again astride a comet's tail, rockets off, the reader may mourn his lively voice but cannot help wishing the world-weary writer godspeed. --By William A. Henry III...
...Psychologist Lenore Walker. She was one of seven feminist psychologists and psychiatrists who were invited to Manhattan last week, all expenses paid, to sit in on a closed meeting dealing with proposed revisions in psychiatry's diagnostic bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Third Edition). DSM-III is of crucial importance to the profession. Its diagnoses are generally recognized by the courts, hospitals and insurance companies...
...deciding that homosexuality, "per se," is not a mental disorder. This left in limbo those homosexuals who are dissatisfied with their condition. So the association created "ego-dystonic homosexuality," the world's first mental disorder that is only a disorder if the afflicted person thinks it is. DSM-III, published in 1980, officially listed tobacco dependence and transsexualism as disorders. "Tobacco dependence" may have been discovered to be a special disorder, worthy of its own category, so that smokers could collect from insurance companies for therapy. When "transsexualism," or discomfort about one's anatomic gender and the desire to change...
Travolta is one of Isaacson's major projects. The actor will soon be getting ready for Far from Over, or Saturday Night Fever III. A self-described "reluctant matador" when it comes to exercise, Travolta has developed some unaesthetic handles around his hips. "When I'm not being paid a lot of money to do a movie and to get in shape, I'm like Marlon Brando," he confesses. Says the determined Isaacson: "There's no question as to whether we can produce the shape and the look." After all, Isaacson came to fame, or more precisely to the attention...
...mountain as a way to block the view of the aluminum spaceship-themed entrance to the Fashion Show Mall across the street. "A lot of these guys will hire architects and designers to come up with ideas. Steve is the driving force in all his buildings," says Frank Fertitta III, 43, the CEO of Station Casinos and a longtime friend, one of the group of young Vegas tycoons Wynn calls his "homeboys...