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Identifying with Papa. Among women patients, Jacobson found a standard pattern: when children, they had rejected femininity as their mothers inadequately personified it, embraced masculinity as their amiable fathers represented it. Sometime during adolescence, they decided they wanted to be women after all. The resultant conflict, said Jacobson, was expressed by a sense of nasal deformity (even if a serious deformity did not exist), because the women identified their noses with those of their fathers, felt that they were distastefully masculine. Women patients often told Jacobson that their noses "would look better on a man's face...
...Flintstones (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). In search of capital gains, Papa Fred and Barney Rubble bet their bundle on a 40-to-l shot at the local dinosaur track...
...Benito Mussolini, who sawed passably on a violin, banned jazz in the country because it was "an expression of an inferior race." Romano and his older brother Vittorio soon became clandestine jazz buffs. Vittorio smuggled U.S. jazz records into the Mussolini household throughout the Fascist era, and on occasion Papa Mussolini would grudgingly admit that some of the disks had merit in a decadent way. But the Duce did not live to see the day when Romano, now 33, has won acclaim as one of Italy's coolest jazz pianists. Describing his music as a "cross between California...
...erupted when three Roman punks taunted two of Gaby's brothers about young Barrymore's beard-a male appurtenance made to order for some special Italian insults. After the brawlers were hauled off to Rome's Queen of Heaven clink, Barrymore, Gaby and Gaby's papa went there to spring the Palazzoli boys, so ardently set about liberating the captives that they soon were jugged themselves. Let off with an eight-month suspended sentence (Gaby and Signor Palazzoli were exonerated). Suitor Barrymore whisked Gaby off to be fitted for a wedding gown, announced that they will...
...evening they have left tooth marks on much that is fatuous, wasp stings in much that is vulgar, powder burns on a lot that is neurotic or just human. They go at each other as a way of going at many things else: they are mamma and papa, or mother and son, or lover and mistress, or brother and sister, or monsieur and madame; they coil round each other constantly like flowers, teenagers or snakes...