Word: delirium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always opted for the water. But, Myers and Melchoir write in Science, after only three days of THP treatment the teetotaling rats began switching to the sauce. Indeed, after a while the rodents became so addicted that they exhibited all the symptoms of alcoholism, including a rodent version of delirium tremens (DTs) characterized by whisker-twitching, jerking movements and "wet-dog" shakes...
Finally, Sly has Able announce his death, and the comedy takes a quan tum jump and delirium risibilitatis sets in. Returning to Broadway after an absence of ten years, Arthur Penn directs the evening's proceedings with the bounce of a trampoline. He must be good for his superb cast, for no one does any thing remotely wrong. Larry Gelbart's book is a naughty treasure laced with sassy one-liners and the ambience of bawdry that he brought to A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. As for the formidably gifted George C. Scott...
...treating the political pamphleteering as part of Celine's purely literary legacy. Typically, critics have turned to one of several options in dealing with Celine's work, ranging, from apolitical--some might say irresponsible--leniency to intransigent ideological indictment: Celine's politics have been ignored; explained away as the delirium of an unstable mind; excused because he did not support the Nazi cause by his actions and because the influence of his rhetoric is doubtful; and invoked as grounds to obliterate him from the annals of French literature...
...magnetism." Although many reputable physicians insist that this magnetism does not exist, Mesmer points to the case of Franziska Oesterlin, 28, a friend of his wife's, whom he successfully treated two years ago for hysterical convulsions, pains in the ears, toothache, fainting spells, retention of urine, and delirium. Newspaper reports of that case brought Viennese flocking to his office...
...found lying on a street in Baltimore, near delirium, dying. In his last contact with friends, in Richmond, he had said he planned to take a boat to Baltimore. No record of the sailing was ever found. Argento and Librettist Charles M. Nolte have used that mysterious boat ride to construct a metaphoric voyage of selfdiscovery: Poe, the crazed poet, relives his loves, sins and miseries...