Word: wounded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...holdout was the jury foreman, William Beebe, 25, the student. He thought the circumstantial evidence was convincing-the bloody shirt, for example. He did not believe the story about the mugging. Several other jurors kept arguing that there was reasonable doubt. Considering the victim's wound, was there really that much blood on Terry's shirt? At around midnight, Beebe gave...
News of the deal surfaced just hours before John Chancellor wound up NBC's Nightly News last Friday with a fond farewell to his colleague: "As a writer, he is simply the best. As a stylist, he is impossible to imitate." Quite true, but Brinkley's NBC bosses seemed almost to have forgotten that during the past year. In fact, it was their growing indifference that finally prompted his exit. Insiders reported that he was frustrated with the network's back-burner treatment of his NBC Magazine with David Brinkley. The show was pitted first against...
...family roots tends to turn work into the spiritual hearth, a chief source of warmth and support. When the supervisor proves to be an idiot, when the pay is bad or the job insecure or unrewarding, then the worker experiences a strangely intimate and fundamental sense of betrayal, a wound very close to the core. Or perhaps the wound is his discovery that the core is empty. And with that discovery, he may resort to a pistol, a length of rope or a fistful of pills, leaving behind a note: "Burned...
Burnout has a way of turning the sovereign self (as we thought of it once, long ago) into a victim, submissive, but passive-aggressive, as psychologists say; it is like a declaration of bankruptcy-necessary sometimes, but also somewhat irresponsible and undignified. It is a million-dollar wound, an excuse, a ticket out. The era of "grace under pressure" vanished in the early '60s. Burnout is the perfect disorder for an age that lives to some extent under the Doctrine of Discontinuous Selves. It simply declares one's self to be defunct, out of business; from that pile...
...couldn't think of a better means than this." She lingered on through cycles of recovery and deterioration for over 15 years, witnessing the success of Paul as a novelist - not missing out, it seemed, on a single turn of the screw. As her final humiliation, she wound up in a psychiatric clinic in Malaga...