Word: numb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hope. "If you had told / me ten years ago that the war would go on for a decade, I wouldn't have believed it," says a Christian publisher in East Beirut. "Tell me now that it will continue for another ten years, and I will merely shrug. We're numb...
Farley, 48, has spent 20 years of study to reach his Type T theory. In one series of tests with student volunteers at Madison, Wis., he made a connection between drinking and thrill seeking. While non-T personalities may drink to grow numb, Type Ts drink to shed inhibitions and are prone to act disruptively while under the influence. Says Farley: "It's experimenting with forbidden fruit." He finds that Type Ts have twice as many automobile accidents as non- Ts, and many even make a point of driving while drunk for the added excitement and risk. "We have become...
Javan T. Bunch '85 said, "I think we're all numb. Suddenly, between all of the No-Doz and the computer paper, something came out and now we're drinking champagne...
...hurts on the other side too. Marcella (Helen Mirren) is the mother of a small child whose policeman husband was shot in his own farmhouse by the I.R.A. She works in a small lending library and lives on the farms with her husband's parents. Hers is a numb existence as she unwillingly shares the burden of tragedy with her late husband's family...
Bush's campaigning skills have improved notably in recent years. In the 1980 primary, he had a Jimmy Carter-like tendency to numb audiences with superfluous detail. Once he became the vice-presidential candidate, he developed a more seamless approach. "He was always hard-working and frenetic," observes a colleague. "As the campaign wore on, he came to focus better on what he wanted to say." The party line is that he will do well because he has more experience and self-confidence...