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...attempting to debunk some of the master's key thinking on the prevalence and significance of child abuse -- an act of iconoclasm that Malcolm aptly termed self-destructive. Masson sued the Archives for $13 million and accepted a settlement of $150,000. Then he made another decision that in retrospect seems even more self-destructive: he agreed to cooperate with Malcolm, a defender of traditional Freudian analysis and thus an ideological opposite. When he read the resulting piece, Masson said, "I realized I had been totally betrayed." Malcolm retorts that he betrayed himself...
...technicality. After running a bar and a mah-jongg parlor, he ventured into real estate in the early 1980s. By 1989 he employed 40 people, and that year he sold 100 apartments to customers who bought them as investments and tax shelters, netting $1.7 million in profits. In retrospect, he says, he should have realized that the boom was topping out, but "every month the prices continued to go up," and banks were eager to keep lending. Hoshino kept on expanding, buying golf memberships at prices up to $500,000 for his clients and employees and a house -- a luxury...
...packaged and marketed like so many Cheez Doodles, Depeche Mode's musical vision of the future already seems a thing of the past: too-cool-to-care vocals, lyrics like something off an answering machine at a suicide hotline, industrial-strength dance grooves as unforgiving as capitalism itself. In retrospect, many of the band's angst- laden hits -- Master and Servant, Fly on the Windscreen -- now seem so terribly '80s, dispassionate, cold and metallic. Music written by androids, produced by cyborgs, performed by robots. Open the pod bay doors...
...your book The Double Helix, in which you colorfully described the events leading to the unveiling of DNA, gave many people their first glimpse of the human side of science -- the competition, the egos, the jealousies. In retrospect, do you wish you had written any sections differently...
...able to really assess Clinton'sinaugural until we see him in retrospect," saidVanderbilt University professor Erwin Hargrove."Inaugurals are a portent for the futurepresidency...