Word: misshapen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...neglect is frequently compounded by outright abuse. Says Dorothy Otnow Lewis, professor of psychiatry at New York University: "Kids are being raised by more and more disturbed parents. And what this lack of parenting breeds is misshapen personalities." Parents punch each other verbally and physically -- and frequently do the same with their children. In fact, the large majority of violent kids have been physically, and often sexually, abused by parents, relatives or others. One mother, reports Lewis, broke her son's legs with a broom; a father threw his child down a set of stairs...
...Last week the courtroom was riveted by a prosecutor's videotape made of Nussbaum after the pair were arrested last year. It showed a woman with the blank gaze of a zombie, covered with scars and bruises, her right leg bearing green ulcerations, and with several bones and joints misshapen from injuries that were never properly treated. Sitting up front every day, just behind Joel Steinberg, is Michelle Launders, 27, Lisa's natural mother. She was 19, pregnant and single in 1980 when, she says, she paid Steinberg $500 to arrange for her child to be adopted. Unbeknown...
...Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar) and Director Harold Prince (Cabaret, Follies) have mounted some of the flashiest spectaculars of recent years, including their prior collaboration, Evita. Practically everyone, it seems, has seen a movie version of Phantom, although few have read Gaston Leroux's turgid 1910 thriller about the hideously misshapen genius who constitutes himself the shadow ruler of the Paris Opera House and, upon becoming infatuated with a chorine, maneuvers her career from afar. The beauty-and-the- beast theme and subterranean wonderland setting echo the myths of Persephone, Pygmalion and Faust and also contemporarily embrace Freudian metaphors of sexual...
...looked more like Dogpatch than Williamsburg, and none of them could have been confused with Bath. The best American minds, like Thomas Jefferson, were by no means unaware of this. Jefferson in the early 1780s complained that many of the buildings in Virginia's capital of Williamsburg were rude, misshapen piles "in which no attempts are made at elegance" and that it was difficult to find a workman who could draw a column correctly. "The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land," he wrote. "The first principles of the art are unknown, and there exists...
...Nova, the Hackers and the BB Guns are going to be tough; the pesky Moose Factory will probably be there at the end, as usual. Prices for the best players were surprisingly high, everyone agrees, and there were amazing bargains at the end. "I feel we've created a misshapen monster," says Patton, who contributed two chapters on intelligent pricing to Golenbock's book, then saw them contradicted by frenetic, trading-floor reality...