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Part Raymond Chandler (were he soft-boiled) and part Elmore Leonard (before he became famous), Robert Ferrigno has created in his first novel some completely original characters who fascinate without being fantastic. The plot revolves around Danny DiMedici's search for his ex-wife Lauren, a celebrity psychologist who has disappeared after a scientist is murdered in her elegant beach house. But The Horse Latitudes works because it is really the story of Danny's quest to get over his obsession with the amoral, alluring Lauren. Under the cover of deadpan comedy and sharp-edged eroticism, Ferrigno, a journalist from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unsafe Sex | 3/26/1990 | See Source »

That came when investigators learned that all of the Menendez family had been consulting a psychologist, Jerome Oziel. After several people approached the police with new information in late February, officers armed with a search warrant confiscated records and tapes from the psychologist's office. Lawyers for the Menendez brothers argued that seizure of the tapes violated the laws governing doctor-patient confidentiality. But the district attorney, Ira Reiner, said the confidentiality rule can be broken when a patient presents a continuing danger or threat. The district attorney filed murder charges against the Menendez brothers, asking for the death penalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Were Millions The Motive? | 3/26/1990 | See Source »

...standard medical care. Though they may not cure the illness, they can improve a person's quality of life -- and that just might alter the disease. "Physicians walk a very fine line between promising more than we know and destroying a person's hope," says Sandra Levy, a psychologist at the Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. "We know mental health helps. Currently, we cannot go beyond that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Can The Mind Help Cure Disease? | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

...there and just buy." If the July launch is successful, But Gordon could make $20 million over the next three years (the regular line is expected to do $12 million in two). Henderson has been fascinated by fashion since his boyhood in the San Joaquin Valley. His mother, a psychologist, bought Vogue patterns, and young Gordon provided emphatic, unsolicited opinions. Very short as a high school sophomore (he is now 5 ft. 11 in.), he took a tough adult-education course in ! tailoring in order, as he says, "to get out of the boys' department." After a halfhearted pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: But Gordon, I Want It All: Gordon Henderson | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

...Clown psychologist consulted hisClown psychologist books. And after many days, theClown psychologist told me--in a very Objectiveway as Clown psychologists are prone to do--that Iwas suffering from a different multisyllabic wordwhich I cannot remember...

Author: By David L. Rettig, | Title: A FABLE | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

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