Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they're willing to forgive him. He's got a kind of thing about him that says to them, I don't hate you. I'm not aloof from you.' But there is suspicion. People are just waiting to see-is this a pattern? If it is, he could lose them overnight...
...generation-gap role-reversal. The older members of the family are non-conformists and the young son is a traditionalist. By the time act one comes to a close, the audience feels as if it's being hit over the head with this witty, bizarre, but tediously predictable pattern...
Sifneos, at Beth Israel, says anorexia may have its roots in a mother's problems with breast-feeding or feeding in general, while at McLean's Hospital in Belmont a study showed anorexics have a pattern of keeping secrets from their mothers...
Tully, at Mass General Hospital, found that many anorexic patients are children of obese parents. "One pattern of anorexia is that one parent, usually the mother, is overweight and constantly dieting and compulsive about dieting and loses weight and gains it right back again. The mother's compulsive habits are forced on the children. The children start dieting wanting to be sexually attractive to males. What occurs so that they don't know when to stop I don't know...
...denials seem completely predictable--almost boring. The pattern is all too familiar: someone gets a call from a reporter and can't resist the urge to talk, only to regret it later. But the fact that the source panics and later issues a flat denial doesn't change the quote...