Word: victimes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...classic precrash body position. A year later, she was still overcome with guilt that she had survived and her passengers died. One recurrent fantasy was that her arms and legs were gone. Says Purl: "I thought maybe if I had no legs or arms, I would be a victim of the crash and that would be O.K. I looked into the mirror one morning and beat it to splinters because I looked so good. My husband was absolutely supportive, but I divorced him. I woke up a year later and thought, 'My God, what have I done...
Barbeau devotes much of her practice to treating airline personnel and families of the dead after fatal plane crashes. Hired by the Association of Flight Attendants, she conducts group sessions and keeps a phone line open night and day for troubled survivors. Reason: the victim's obsessive need to talk about the ordeal is part of the healing process. Says Barbeau: "The unburdening must go on, over and over again...
...first reaction of the survivor, says Barbeau, is "psychic numbing," a defense mechanism that keeps him or her functioning. Then the full horror of the crash pokes through, fades again, and gradually comes to overwhelm the victim. Like many flight attendants, Arlene Feroe, who survived an Alaska Airlines accident, ran around the hospital for days apologizing to injured passengers. Another attendant drove his automobile into a tree during a hallucination; he "saw" a colleague who died in a plane crash sitting beside...
Concerned that his own re-election apparatus may not be adequate, Carter appears on the verge of some major shakeups. Campaign Manager Tim Kraft is a likely victim. Former Democratic National Chairman Robert Strauss is considering abandoning his job as Special Ambassador to the Middle East to assume direction of the Carter-Mondale Committee...
Quasimodo probably had it. Digger Barnes of the television soap opera Dallas has developed the symptoms. In real life the most famous victim was John Merrick, the grotesquely deformed "Elephant Man," who became a sought-after celebrity in Victorian England...