Word: libido
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...struggle to squeeze as much social activity as possible into the limited time available. At Harvard-Yale tailgates, we drink enough for an entire semester. Events like this past weekend’s incestfest at Kirkland House offer enough potential hook-ups to satisfy a student’s libido for the entire year...
Most bipolar adults move back and forth between depressions and highs in cycles that can stretch over months. During the depressive phase, they experience hopelessness, loss of interest in work and family, and loss of libido--the same symptoms as in major (or unipolar) depression, with which bipolar is often confused. The depressive curtain can descend with no apparent cause or can be triggered by a traumatic event such as an accident, illness or the loss...
...bullish about "Confessions of a Street Addict" by James J. Cramer (Simon & Schuster; May 13), giving it a starred review. "Wall Street's most notorious bull bares all in this typically over-the-top memoir. If Alan Greenspan was the superego of the '90s economy, Cramer was surely its libido. This memoir hopscotches between his trademark hyperbole and a peculiar form of self-abnegation (he never seems happier than when flagellating himself). Wall Street-savvy readers will particularly enjoy Cramer's blow-by-blow account of the late-'90s market. The IPO for Cramer's financial e-rag, TheStreet.com...
...therapy, options are limited, taking their cues from addiction protocols, which stress abstinence and provide strategies for avoiding temptation. Libido-lowering drugs may also help, as may antidepressants such as Prozac. Highly motivated patients can avoid trouble for years. The key, however, is the motivation; patients must work on their recovery for a lifetime, usually with the support of a family or community. "Running someone through a two- or three-year program, then leaving him on his own is doomed to failure," says Smith. With the lives of kids on the line, failure is something that few parents or lawmakers...
...movie script improves on the novelette in two basic ways: by what's added (the whipcrack pungency of Odets' dialogue) and what's missing. Sidney no longer has a souring affair with J.J.'s secretary. (The boy is all ego, not libido; he's too busy screwing his clients to waste time screwing a secretary.) Also gone are the interior monologues, and good riddance; Sidney has no soul to confide to us. But he has a handsome line of patter - a slick pitch (most likely a spitter) for shoddy merchandise. He stops you on the street, talks fast, and suddenly...