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Each side played the usual psych-war games in these talks: Gore's team said he wanted lapel mikes for the first debate (that was designed to fool Bush into thinking Gore was going to walk around); Bush wanted swivel chairs for the second debate (to make him look as tall as the Vice President). And for the third debate, the two sides spent a lot of time discussing rules of movement and space in ways that would have made an air-traffic controller proud, including arguments about privacy areas, zones of separation and what constituted interference. "The Bush people...
...shirt seems terribly reasonable. I was sold - until informed that customers had to buy five items in order to qualify for the 75 percent discount. To understand the disappointment and betrayal I felt at that moment, you should watch the slickly edited, thump- thumping trailer for "The Contender," psych yourself up for a thriller, then, when it opens Oct. 13, pay $8 to see what's actually a thoughtful political drama starring Joan Allen in business suits and Gary Oldman in a Mike Brady perm. You may want to stage a walkout yourself, and that's just what...
...beautiful thing about weight lifting is that it's a no-frills event. Contestant comes out. Contestant applies chalk. Contestant grabs bar. Contestant lifts bar. Contestant makes a happy grimace and drops bar. Contestant leaves stage. But it's not without drama, as the women try to psych each other out backstage by making their next lift heavier and heavier. Sort of like muscle poker. Except everybody's bluff is eventually called...
Coloroso's book, which also covers divorce and illness, is a true self-help book, and she is an adherent of pop-psych locutions. The "five S's" of suicide and murder, she says, are "stigma, shame, secrets, silence and sin." The "TAO" of family is an acronym for the three things we need when our lives are thrown into chaos: time, affection and optimism. Some of Coloroso's observations are wise; others will be annoying to those less inclined toward this approach. But it's hard to quibble with her favorite formulation: "Life is not fair. Life hurts. Life...
...psych explanation is that this comes from his youth. A child of divorce, Hanks moved constantly as a boy. But he seems loath to talk about his personal motivations, and when I suggest this Hanks-as-Odysseus thesis, he responds--in the most generous, droll, affable, Hanksian way--that I'm full of crap. "They each have their voyages, but I guess I don't see that [similarity]. The danger of getting home was inherent in Jim Lovell's choice to go to the moon. I guess Captain Miller [fits], but I don't think he ever thought...