Word: traumas
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...spin and hype, the agitated, drooling and unembarrassable twin children of publicity. Spin and hype, working mostly through the magic of television, create a sort of virtual reality in which no one is quite accountable and consequences can be annulled by changing the channel -- or adducing a childhood trauma. That powerful universe of sensational illusion has increasingly come to determine the moral atmosphere of America. The virtual world of trailer-park daytime television even has its academic counterpart in structuralism and deconstruction, whose practitioners sever reality from "text" and thereby render everything vulnerable to the most subjective, onanistic reading...
Comulative trauma disorders (CTDs),characterized by pain, numbness or swelling in thehands, among other symptoms, were once industriessuch as meat and poultry processing, electronicassembly and garment production...
...authors' greatest preoccupation is with Klein's private life. He married young and fathered a daughter, Marci, whose kidnapping in 1978 was a media circus and a personal trauma. By that time, Klein had discovered drugs and vodka and immersed himself in the luxurious pre-AIDS life of rich gays. He developed a passion for Studio 54, even staying after it closed to help the waiters count change. Then it was on to Flamingo, a gay after-hours club. Final stop was the Mineshaft, a "warren of rooms crowded with men, many openly having sex . . . no cologne or Lacoste shirts...
...declaiming at once, and the simple absurdity of people metamorphosing into thick-skinned pachyderms all testify to his won uncertainty. The effect is a mood of irrationality and mayhem as close to the experience of a real Nazi town as can be imagined. Today his vision nags like a trauma sustained too long ago to recall clearly, haunting audiences like a repressed memory of extreme violence...
...child from birth knows firsthand how defenseless a newborn baby can be. No other animal is so helpless for so long -- so dependent on adults for food, shelter, attention, instruction and a nurturing environment in which to develop and grow. Scientists have learned that babies subjected to repeated trauma or stress or left unattended for too long may suffer neurological effects that can, in extreme cases, be irreversible. But as a society, the U.S. seems to have forgotten the needs of its youngest children. Of the 12 million American babies and toddlers under age three, a staggering number...