Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...characters' exploration of their own emotional landscapes owed a lot to the writers' penchant for self-examination. Not much has changed a decade later. "The minute I told Ed I was separating from my wife in '93," says Herskovitz, "he started to talk about all the stories you could tell...
Next to Fig Newtons, there's nothing I like better than a good longitudinal study. I especially enjoy ones with fancy titles that use lots of charts and graphs to tell us what we suspected all along. The latest, entitled "The Nature and Predictors of the Trajectory of Change in Marital Quality for Husbands and Wives over the First 10 Years of Marriage," was published this month in the Journal of Developmental Psychology. Cutely subtitled "Predicting the Seven-Year Itch," this extensive research charts the decline in the quality of marriages of more than 500 Midwestern couples, surveyed over...
...though, I'd probably get Handspring's new 5.4-oz. Visor, which you'll be able to purchase next month online at the company's website, handspring.com I say probably because, though Handspring finally gave specs for the Visor last week, we need to know more before we can tell if this is really the last gadget you'll ever need...
...know: Will the Springboard add-ons really work? Although I've been trying out the Visor for the past few weeks, cool modules won't be ready for months. The only plug-in I had was a bland Tiger Woods Golf game cartridge, and let me tell you, the proof is definitely not in the putting. No, it looks as if I'll have to wait months more to see if this is the Uber-gadget. And write about PDAs yet again...
...getting burned for its handling of the 1993 showdown in Waco with followers of David Koresh [NATION, Sept. 6]. If the FBI has lied repeatedly about what happened in Waco, can it be trusted to tell the truth when it testifies against members of the Waco cult? Juries are expected to assume the honesty of the FBI and other law-enforcement agencies. The repeated lies of the FBI in Waco have made its credibility go up in smoke. ROBERT NEMOYER Bridgeview...