Word: traumas
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Idgy and Ruth, the proprietors of a restaurant (specialty: fried green tomatoes), support each other and survive through much trauma at the hands of evil...
...bases the protagonist of the novel, Wilson Corder, upon himself. Corder is a child therapist who attempts to decipher what has happened to abused children by talking with them. He gets them to cooperate by using a controversial examination method called play therapy--he has children act out their trauma through toys...
Since silicone breast implants were introduced 30 years ago, millions of women have sworn by their results. For most, the ample gel-filled sacs provided a welcome boost in self-esteem. For 1 out of 4 recipients, they brought a return to normality after the trauma of mastectomy. So when anecdotal reports of health problems associated with the devices began cropping up over the past several years, women were first alarmed, then hugely relieved when surgeons asserted that the stories were groundless. Now their confidence has once again been shaken...
...entirely understandable -- mistake. For the ruined doctor commits suicide, and his wife Peyton (Rebecca De Mornay) suffers both a miscarriage and a descent into madness as a result of the trauma. Assuming a false name and a false air of accommodation, she turns up at the Bartels', seeking work as a mother's helper. And, of course, revenge...
...fear of waking up and finding another agency has been moved to West Virginia." D.C.'s elected shadow senator, Jesse Jackson, says the migration "smacks of racism." That is merely Jackson's way of saying he doesn't like it. It's true the affected federal employees suffer the trauma of either uprooting their families or losing their jobs. But the same trauma is faced by employees of the many businesses enticed into the Washington area, often with the energetic help of these same members of Congress...