Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unlike most psychiatrists, who believe that schizophrenia arises from a genetic defect or a chemical imbalance, family therapists tend to believe that schizophrenia is not a disease but a desperate strategy adopted by a family in trouble. According to this view, the family's complex web of emotional transactions is like a cybernetic, or automatically controlled system. Sometimes, when internal pressures threaten to blow the family apart, one member-usually a son or daughter-either knowingly or unknowingly agrees to become mentally ill. In a number of complex ways, this tactic holds the family together. But the child pays...
...addition to the small size of the financial contribution, American efforts to ease the problems of overpopulation and hunger have been fragmented and confused, tangled in a complicated web of bureaucracies. In a report released last July, the Republican minority staff of the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, found that no single agency has final authority for U.S. participation in the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization and the world-wide attempt to conquer hunger. Senator Charles Percy, ranking Republican committee member, said U.S. resources that are "spent in a haphazard and uncoordinated way would appear...
...team up, and the case of the missing puss-puss predictably leads them into a tangled web of blackmail, murder and all the other sordid goings-on that the back of any good dime novel promises. This set-up isn't half bad, pairing a slowed-down gum shoe with a hanger-on from the age of Aquarius. As a mere thematic gimmick, however, it's not too much less than half bad, and risks making you wish that directors would cut out these nostalgic and unimaginative throw-backs to the classics. But extra dimensions fast begin to fill...
...professor of Physics and frequent collaborator with Glashow. Georgi and Glashow face each other in the picture, bemused. A cartoon-type bubble pasted on the picture depicts them berating each other with the caustic phrase, "You dummy!" A sketch of Einstein and an enlarged photograph of a delicate white web of spirals on a black background decorate the fourth wall. Cross-country skis stand in the corner...
Live with a musician, and the tension and jealousies become a web too complicated to negotiate. And for a rocker it's always easy to check out-poof!-and travel on to the next town...