Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...California madhouse. Through the door of The State Hospital, 1966, you peer into a charnel house of the soul, in which an emaciated and filthy body lies on the lower bunk of a two-tier unit while his doppelganger lies on the one above, encircled by a neon thought balloon. He is the real patient's dream; there is no escape from the confinement and lunacy; one fortifies the other...
Turn on. In this instance, one of Leary's friends adjusts the valve of the nitrous-oxide tank, and a balloon inflates. Leary takes a hit off the balloon, and his eyes roll back into his skull. The laughing gas eases the intense pain he feels in his hip. "All my life, I've hated the legal drugs and loved illegal ones," he says when he comes back to earth. "The doctors don't like to hear me say that. But this is safe. It's just like air." Of course, laughing gas isn't the only remedy...
...years, but I've only batted one out of three. The other two times, I went up there, and probably shouldn't have swung at that outside pitch. But look around--I'm still leading the league, I think." With that, Leary takes another deep draw on his balloon so that he can, for the moment, drop...
...life-span of Americans is increasing, and because the disease most often strikes men who are in their 60s or 70s, more of them are now afflicted. When the baby-boom generation matures, the number will balloon. "As men live longer and do not succumb to heart disease and stroke, more will die from prostate cancer," says Dr. William Catalona, a urologist at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. "And it is not a nice death...
What Panahi does best is to communicate the charming simplicity of daily life in Iran. Throughout the film, Razieh is aided by a series of strangers, all of whom want her to succeed in her quest; the film values the honesty and goondess of ordinary people. "The White Balloon" is not just another foreign film; it is a new kind of film altogether, one that values a simple plot, fresh, genuine actors, and an honest style...