Word: delirium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...satires had earned him the reputation of, as he wrote, "a man whom it is the great mode to hate." His two great loves, wine and women, finally turned on him so that by 1677 he was almost blind. In 1680 he died--either of tertiary syphilis or delirium tremens--disgraced for alleged cowardice on the dueling field, and accused of having thugs beat up Dryden, England's poet laureate (there is still no conclusive evidence about the latter charge...
...comedy stubbornly refuses to be reborn. It flourished in the '30s and into the '40s, urged on by the talents of such as Howard Hawks (Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday) and Preston Sturges (Sullivan's Travels, The Lady Eve) and considerably abetted by the general delirium of the times. The format flourished under Sturges all during World War II but died out soon after the war ended...
...years, imbibing three martinis at lunch, two more on the way home and three when he gets there. One day, however, he may wind up in a hospital with a broken leg and, deprived of his daily quota, may suddenly find himself in the middle of the DTs (delirium tremens), which are characterized by extreme agitation, confusion and frightening hallucinations...
...also one of the few moments that survive the delirium of Clayton's staging. He shoots the love scenes in gauzy soft focus. Everything gleams: bracelets, sunlight on glasses, leaves on trees, even eyeballs. This is at best. At worst, when Clayton photographs the lovers dancing together in a vast, empty ballroom or kissing, their images reflected in a goldfish pond, he seems to have lapsed into some middle ground between self-parody and self-flagellation...
...since the 1954 arrival of honeymooning Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio had there been such delirium at Tokyo International Airport. A record crowd of more than 4,000 was on hand to greet the returning hero as he flew home from Manila. Press helicopters hovered outside his Tokyo hospital window, while newspapers devoted full-page spreads to him. Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka personally took writing brush in hand to inscribe ten poetic characters. The message: "The air of a heavenly hero will prove awesome through a thousand autumns...