Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...asked him if he could recommend someone I could see in Manhattan. He said, 'The last I heard, trains are still running between there and Baltimore. Why not come see me?' I did, and we talked a lot over the phone, and by early April I was back to normal." But the memory of Wolfe's trying time is echoed in the new novel, when Charlie Croker, observing his at-risk Atlanta mansion and grounds bathed in sunlight, shrinks from the sight and thinks, "The depressed man longs for heavy clouds, fog, mist, chilly weather, downpours, hail...
...concerned about talks about her body. Does she moan about her fat behind even though she's rail thin? Is she hiding under baggy clothes? Has her energy level dropped so low that she's sleeping all the time? Doctors suspect anorexia when a woman weighs 15% below normal and hasn't menstruated for at least three months. But there are more subtle signs as well: the growth of baby-fine hair (as the shrinking body tries to keep warm), brittle nails, swollen joints. Bulimics may develop a chronic sore throat and dental problems (caused by frequent vomiting), bloating...
...Babe's darkest secrets, down to the moment when she shot her husband Zachary. Taylor's Babe is mousy and quirky, perfectly genteel if false in her most controlled moments and hauntingly lucid in her moments of insanity. She makes the tale of shooting her husband sound as normal as going to the grocery--an effect which makes it only more disturbing, and more realistic. Babe's obsession with suicide makes her seem only marginally sane, yet the profound truths she uncovers in her wildest fits reveal her as the play's wisest character, a trait that Taylor might have...
...going to be a more sweeping version of our normal magazine," said Weinrib of the planned issue...
Last year's slight increase in the normal trickle of Harvard students into the world of professional athletics made last night's panel especially relevant...