Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kids spend all their time in the government-funded Dance Barns numbing their minds on the music and the uncontrolled black market drugs. At home, the "oldies"--and the kids too wacked out even to crawl to the Barn--are watching channel 147, which plays an around the clock, brain washing mixture of snooker, music videos and government advertising. MTV may not bug you now, but just give it a couple years...
Myers had been diagnosed over the summer as having a chemical imbalance in his brain, leading to a schizoid personality. He had been receiving psychiatric care...
...romanticism evolved toward 20th century Holocaust. Clarke's allusive, dreamlike style can mesmerize audiences into believing they perceive subtle new connections among ideas and events. But in The Hunger Artist, which opened off-Broadway last week, Clarke has turned toward narrative and dialogue, and what meets the ear and brain is less than what meets the eye. The passages she has culled from Kafka, particularly The Metamorphosis, are familiar; the actors sometimes find eerie pathos but often waver between lobotomized declamation and coarse accent comedy. And there is unattractive self-pity in the vision of an artist as a caged...
...those screen folks we're emulating had their soundtracks specially superimposed upon their make-believe lifestyles. But you, poor thing, are cruising around with Papa Don't Preach strewing its irrelevant pop-Catholic message through your culturally-raped brain. Depersonalized top 40 is not the way to apply musical direction to a meaningless life...
...Island for the mentally retarded. Britt is attending a community college and has had two one-man shows of his paintings. In Connecticut, one 31-year-old man, diagnosed as autistic when a child, has become a gifted pianist. In Baton Rouge, La., Kathy Dial, a child with severe brain damage, has a vocal repertoire of some 300 songs...