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...played the piano," had the nerve to tell off Big Lin and pop him in the nose "Suddenly Bobby shouted: 'Don't worry, Eugene, I'll protect you,' and Bobby socked Big Lin in the back of the head with the catcher's mask." After that "nobody thought much of Bobby. They figured maybe he was a lot more sly than he was brave...
...series of episodic developments in the rivalry between a lusty, gusty bum called Wacholder, who wallows in a mountainous litter of crumpled papers and stacked cartons, and his neighbor Wurz. An obsessive-compulsive bacteriophobe, Wurz even dresses in a sterile white jump suit and dons a surgical mask and rubber gloves to have sexual intercourse with his masked, gloved wife...
...emotional disorder. No one would wish to institute psychotherapy with young men or women whose painful struggles are moving them closer to an understanding of themselves or of their relationship with the external world. But for other individuals, hard to distinguish from their fellows, the general confusions of adolescence mask a diffusion and despair not characteristic of a developmental phase, but indicative of emotional disorder. This differentiation of normal developmental crisis from emotional disorder, this ability to pick out disturbance but to avoid potentially weakening or infantalizing interference must be the concern of every educator and mental health worker...
...murder-for-hire chieftain by making him believe in ghosts; first by projecting a likeness of Phelps's face into a cloud of carbon dioxide in a darkened room, then by propping up the unconscious body of one of the killer's underlings and using a face mask-a favorite IMF ploy-to make him look like Phelps. The killer shoots at the face, but as he walks nearer, the mask dissolves and he finds that he has rubbed...
...killed was that he was hit by the flat side rather than the edge of the puck. Last October, Minnesota Goal Tender Cesare Maniago was knocked silly for several minutes by a Hull shot that glanced off the top of his head; he now wears a face mask against Chicago. Bobby is aware that he could permanently injure somebody, but he cannot permit himself to brood about it. "I'm certainly not out to maim anyone," he says, "but the goalies take their chances...