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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hardly a success: Emma's nose began to bleed regularly and profusely. A few weeks after the operation, another doctor found that Fliess had left over half a meter of gauze inside her nose. As Freud later wrote to Fliess, the other physician "pulled at something like a thread, kept on pulling and before either one of us had time to think, at least half a meter of gauze had been removed from the cavity. The next moment came a flood of blood. The patient turned white, her eyes bulged, and she had no pulse." However, with the gauze removed...

Author: By Simon J. Frankel, | Title: Freud Revised | 3/14/1984 | See Source »

Picking up this thread later in a discussion of Bly, Libby fails against critical skepticism of the poet's prophetic visions. Beliet is hardly the point," he writes continuing...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: The Poem Is Only Half | 2/10/1984 | See Source »

Then follows the thread of despair: 'But I didn't care about rules any more. I didn't care about memories. I was sick to death of tension and tiredness and distress and distorted values and the high-pitched level and the fortitude which we had proved beyond doubt that we possessed. I had passed the flame, I had had my initiation... I was sick to death of being on the qui vive all the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Excerpt | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

...thread of negotiations must not be broken. The START negotiations must stay alive. In Stockholm, a conference is to open on conventional disarmament in Europe, which has great political importance. There is no justification for the Soviet Union's walking out of the INF negotiations. We would view a return to the negotiations not as a defeat for the U.S.S.R. but as a reasonable exercise of responsibility by its leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Some Practical and Realistic Advise | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

...Jimmy R. Holla and his unsuccessful Boy of pigs invasion had lost all of the Mafia's casino dope cackers and position rings to Fidel Castro. Ferre was anti-Castro and-elegantly turned Owald Ferrie was found dead six days after being named as a conspirator by Garrison. The thread tying Dallas and New Orleans together was allegedly Ruby...

Author: By Paul T. Evans, | Title: Who Shot the President? | 11/22/1983 | See Source »

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