Word: delirium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rock West straight to cable and video. Another outfit picked it up, however, and it is belatedly making its way into a few theaters. It's well worth tracking down, wherever you can find it. For it has the kind of tension and energy -- maybe even a touch of delirium -- that is only a memory in most of today's big studio movies. You just know that no one connected with Red Rock West owns a suit or a tie or knows how to write a self-protective memo...
...more important things to worry about than Greg, right now. The GREs determine your FUTURE. Thiscouldruiny-ourlifeohmyGod. I'm sorry. Really sorry. Try Ann Landers, Ask Beth, Hints for Heloise. Hell, try Ask Shagg. It's possible the adrenaline rush of taking the GREs led to a strange delirium which you translated into lust. What do I know? All my doctor friends are on vacation in the Caribbean. Seriously, get a note from your doctor. I'm sure there's some name for your problem. Please write back and let us know how you're doing. Failed GRE stories...
...film continually cuts to shots in a mental hospital of patients who are suffering from severe alcoholic delirium. Although it is unclear from what period these clips are taken, the message seems to be that the problems of the present--alcoholism--are caused by the troubles of the past--such as paranoia about espionage...
...high-decibel delirium is "Timecapsule One" of a weekly Friday-night event billed as "NASA" (Nocturnal Audio and Sensory Awakening), an all-night techno "rave" that culminates with breakfast and bungee jumping from a Hudson River pier as the sun's first rays warm the spire of the Empire State Building...
...with baby laxative and injects it into her breast. "It's a Kafka high," she says. "You feel like a bug." In his daymares, Bill is visited by beetles -- big ugly things, chatting away through purulent orifices -- that send him on a spy mission into the Tangier of his delirium. Typewriters turn into bugs, and so do the humans Bill meets, who are verminous to begin with. Cronenberg, whose 1986 movie The Fly was a great parable of love and decay, takes this line as his mandate: "Exterminate all rational thought...