Word: schizoid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meshing of her public and private lives placed near schizoid demands on Thatcher. She had, and still has, two faces that are startlingly different: prim and tart-tongued in public, she is also a homebody who delights in comparing prices with other housewives in grocery stores near her comfortable house on Flood Street in the fashionable London district of Chelsea. Thatcher herself has said that "I'm a romantic at heart," and admits that "there are times when I get home at night, and everything has got on top of me, when I shed a few tears silently, alone...
...style (a contessa wife, visits to Manhattan's Studio 54 disco, a personal p.r. man) irritates some of his colleagues, admitted that the operation was not up to his usual high standards but insisted that it was "cosmetically acceptable." Instead, he attacked O'Hare as perennially dissatisfied, schizoid and a cosmetic-surgery junkie. She has had nine nose jobs, an eyelid lift, a face lift and hair transplant, said Bellin, who had performed two of those operations, as well as eyelid surgery for her boyfriend...
Garvin reflects the tensions that plague the company. Tall, blond, looking younger than his 57 years, he nonetheless seems put off balance by the schizoid demands of his position. Is his primary task to make profits for shareholders, who consist not just of the Rockefeller family (they control only about 1% of the stock) but also of union pension funds, investment trusts, and more than 600,000 everyday investors? Or is his main job, as Exxon's advertisements imply, to be a defender of the national security? As Garvin told TIME Correspondent John Tompkins, in an observation that no Exxon...
...mysterious Alyosha Gregarin and funded by the World Jewish Alliance, amateurs of every faith and skill capture the Kremlin's Oruzheinaya Palata, taking hostage some 50 tourists and the sacred corpse of Lenin. Author Lippincott, who admits to having had "some intelligence connections," knows his Moscow and the schizoid style of its new aristocracy, the Politburocrats...
...test at varying I.Q. levels, and turn out different kinds of artwork. Ragen, 23, who speaks with a Slavic accent, is "almost devoid of concern for others." Danny and Christopher are decent, quiet teenagers, but Tommy, 16, who initiated the enlistment in the Navy, is depressed and has many schizoid characteristics...