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...girls' parents arrive to comfort them. The wailing soon subsides. Lewis, 46, is not a sadistic Scrooge; on the contrary, he is an eminent and kind-hearted psychologist who presides over the Institute for the Study of Child Development at Rutgers Medical School in New Brunswick, NJ. His laboratory is a friendly place filled with dolls and Teddy bears and jigsaw puzzles; blue-red-and-yellow rainbows streak across the walls. Along one of those walls runs a ten-foot-long two-way mirror so that Lewis can study children unobserved and record their activities on two videotape cameras...
...Places. "That would slow him down." Murphy has become best buddies with Joe Piscopo, 32 the adroit, rubber-faced comic actor who is the closest thing to Dan Aykroyd on the new SNL; next month Eddie will move into a new house a mile away from Piscopo in Alpine, NJ. Otherwise, his best friends are his oldest friends. One of them, Clinton Smith, is an assistant to Saturday Night Live Executive Producer Dick Ebersol Another, Derrick Lawrence, 28, has signed on with Eddie Murphy Productions as an all-purpose aide-de-camp. "I'd been laid off from...
MARRIAGE REVEALED. Herschel Walker, 21, University of Georgia Bulldog turned multimillion-dollar New Jersey General; and Cynthia DeAngelis, 21, Georgia business major; both for the first time; on March 31, in Bloomingdale, NJ. Three days after the wedding Walker rushed for 177 yds. and three touchdowns (vs. 261 yds. in four previous pro games), leading the way to a 35-21 win, the Generals' first, over the Arizona Wranglers...
Earlier this year, Wilkins conducted a week-long cold-turkey cure with elementary-school pupils in Ridgewood, NJ. Her accounts of the week of abstinence often sound like the minimelodramas at a fat farm. Some families balked; some began and gave up; several starving mothers furtively watched General Hospital; one frustrated father resorted to taping Rangers' hockey games. In general, parents seemed to suffer the pangs of withdrawal more acutely than their children...
...Blume's Deenie, the 13-year-old narrator faces disease and ignorance in Elizabeth, NJ. Suffering from scoliosis, Deenie must wear an ugly, uncomfortable back brace. The experience helps her overcome the primitive adolescent fear of being different. But Deenie represents up-to-date psychology as well. Could her curvature of the spine have been caused by occasional masturbation? Set straight by a briskly efficient gym teacher named Mrs. Rappoport, Deenie muses: "I never knew there was a name for what I do. I just thought it was my own special good feeling. Now I wonder...