Word: traumas
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...challenge"). At 5 ft. 10 in. and 145 lbs. he is a fair-size man, but he was tiny as a boy, and, he says, "I used to get the bejesus kicked out of me regularly in school." The result wasn't any artistically fruitful psychological trauma, as far as he knows; it was that he learned to anesthetize himself from pain. As he observes now, "That isn't a very
...Caro leaves practically nothing about his man unexamined.*There are seven scholarly pages on the rainfall and soil composition of the Texas hill country in the 19th century. Not for nothing: Caro is explaining why Johnson's farming forebears were doomed to failure despite their heroic labors, a trauma that helped shape the young Lyndon. He began running away from home while still a toddler. As a cousin puts it, "He wanted attention. He wanted to be somebody." After watching his father Sam, an incorruptible six-term state legislator, go broke trying to raise crops in the merciless hill...
...into the detail with a man." By interviewing victims herself, she can sometimes strengthen a case. "It's nice to be able to present a district attorney a case that is so tight that the defendant pleads guilty and the victim doesn't have to go through the trauma of testifying in court...
...getter who organizes a dance so the class can adopt a starving Guatemalan child; Jennifer DeNuccio, a prototypical Valley Girl ("Like ... pass me out the door"); and a drama teacher who wants to stage a show called A Cafeteria Line and exhorts his aspiring actors to "share a trauma with me." Beatts, Friedman and their writers pack solid laughs, a little sentiment and sidelong satire of such youth-oriented enterprises as Grease and Fame all into a fleet half-hour. So far, Square Pegs is the sweetest surprise of the season. -By Jay Cocks
...Boston Herald American, prominently-displayed stories in the Boston Globe, several stories in the New York Times, and others carried on the national wire services. At this week's conference, about two dozen reporters, from print, radio, and television, bounded the Websters for "personal details" of their emotional trauma...