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...admitted to counseling?' " recalls Susan Longley of Liberty, Maine, who had been lukewarm to Gore before his speech. "And since then I've developed a magnetic pull to Gore, because he speaks the language of people who tend their hearts." Family counseling is not part of Gore's campaign pitch, but like many of his generation, he is clearly fascinated by the family as an institution. He talks enthusiastically about Swiss psychoanalyst Alice Miller, whose 1981 classic Prisoners of Childhood, renamed The Drama of the Gifted Child, argues that children deprived of unconditional love from their parents grow up with...
Centrella certainly sounds casual about the case, possibly because this kind of pitch dark mystery is nothing new to him. He worked on the still-unsolved Boston Strangler Case and gets calls just about every day from police officers all over the country responding to his a.p.b...
...best coffee in the Square," Sorrento says. "Christy's coffee tastes like it's from the bottom of the urn every time you go in there. They don't put enough cream in it," he says. "It always tastes like tar, or pitch...
...that promises its eventual form, in a small picture from 1901-02, Studio Under the Eaves -- a brown, dim room with a blaze of sacramental light at the end, a glimpse of apricot wall and flowering tree. From then on it will appear whenever he is at full pitch: in The Open Window, 1905, as he is creating the speckled, radically colored world of Fauvism at Collioure in the south of France; in the great "decorative" paintings of 1908-12 like Conversation; in the astoundingly bare and mysterious French Window at Collioure, 1914; and so on to the palm tree...
...core of Bush's pitch was hardly surprising. Sounding like a born-again preacher of Reaganomics, the President promised to "stimulate entrepreneurial capitalism, not punish it." He argued for lower taxes, less federal spending, less regulation. To make America an "export superpower," Bush proposed an expansive network of free-trade arrangements going well beyond the North | American Free Trade Agreement now pending. For the Beltway bureaucracy bashers, he offered to cut the salaries of higher-paid government officials and to pare the White House operating budget by one-third -- if Congress does the same...