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...discussed. She conceived it as a sequel to Illness As Metaphor, the 1978 work that emerged from her experience with breast cancer, a mastectomy and years of chemotherapy. The earlier book, by tracing myths that had attached themselves to tuberculosis and cancer, brilliantly discredited notions -- like that of the pent-up, "cancer-prone" personality -- that add senseless guilt and shame to the burdens patients already carry. "But it's much more common now for people to be candid about cancer," she says "because there's a new disease to hang all your fantasies and phobias on -- AIDS...
...pent-up frustration let loose," McElreavy said...
...capital environs) legislation. By the time Congress adjourns in mid-October, it will have compiled a record in passing landmark activist legislation exceeded in recent years only by the Great Society 89th Congress of 1965 and 1966. Says House Speaker Jim Wright by way of explanation: "There were pent-up needs too long deferred." Adds Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd: "We were too long in the desert. It seemed like 40 years...
...European customers, while Piaggio says it will sell 60% of its planes in North and South America. By some estimates, fewer than 8,000 corporate aircraft are in use today worldwide, but the industry is coming out of a decade-long slump, and there may be a backlog of pent-up demand...
...kind of like horses beginning a race," senior Lanny Thorndike said. "We're gnawing on the bit. We have a lot of pent-up aggression and we're ready to let loose...