Word: tamers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Langs, 57, the author of 20 books in the field and program director of the Psychotherapy Program at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, is a longtime student of various therapies and how they work. His definition of madness is tamer than it sounds. He uses the word to indicate the inner turmoil and contradictions that are present in everyone. But his conclusion is anything but tame: the average consumer of therapy is likely to be influenced, and perhaps overwhelmed, by the emotional problems of therapists. The bad news is that many patients are more damaged by their therapists...
Most students, however, have tamer uses for their computers. Joshua F. Thorpe '88 has an entire baseball league at his fingertips in his computer. "Computer baseball is addictive, but you just have to play because it's baseball," says Thorpe. He adds that he prefers computer baseball to field baseball because "It's faster and allows you to make decisions...
...many times, only to be shattered again, that few dared hope that the latest cease-fire would be anything more than a brief respite. "If you had told us ten years ago that we could expect a decade of war, we would have thrown up our hands," says Jana Tamer, publisher of a Middle East newsletter. "Tell us now that it will go on for another ten years, and I guess we would just shrug. We are numb...
...ambitions. Chita Rivera (Anna) is about as small-time as Radio City Music Hall. Packing 30 years of Broadway savvy into the frame of a vivacious teenager, the 51-year-old entertainer could by now sell a song to the deaf; she commands the audience like a lion tamer with a whip snap in her walk; and, by the forces of magnetism and sheer will, she eats co-stars for breakfast. Thus it is partly noblesse oblige and partly the instinct for survival that keeps Liza Minnelli (Angel), the bigger box-office attraction, out of Chita's way. Minnelli...
...become more than a peripheral strangeness, to be shut out with ease or with difficulty, according to temperament. For the skaters, ice is ice, if it is cooled to the right temperature and the East European judges are not too hostile. For the skiers, the runs are slightly tamer than World Cup racecourses usually are, but this is true for any Olympics; you cannot have the inexperienced skiers who show up to race every four years (Turks, Greeks and Chinese are entered) kill themselves on downhill runs like the frightening Hahnenkamm at Kitzbiihel. Winds are notoriously bad here, and after...