Word: delirium
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Twenty-four hours following arrival: Traveler is in jet lag-induced delirium. Hello, there, Mr. Sandwich. How are you today? I am going to eat you now; I hope you don?t mind...
...Paul Rein's musical apprenticeship began in the early '80s. A Swedish pop phenom, Rein drove teenage girls into adoring delirium and even up trees. After three albums, his star faded - "I had nothing left to give" - but he learned how to relate to audiences and "how to get the right twist" in songs. He moved into the studio, writing radio ad jingles. He learned not only how to program and arrange, but also what works on air. "If the hook's not there in seconds, you're dead," he advises...
...charged flick shot in cine-verité style in a hellish-looking Seoul. Full of pimps, prostitutes and drugs galore, it's grubby stuff with girls furtively delivering hand shandies (though the filmmaker doesn't show the offending organs), and the cold, unfelt sex doesn't make for aesthetic delirium, but then neither should it. This is cinematic confrontation that resists escape. Kim Tae Yong's Memento Mori is a contemporary teenage-lesbo-horror-psycho casserole that keeps its clothes on and takes the time to show emotional need, longing and the denial of love. It's a chick flick...
...procedure involving anesthesia. Antishock activists cite Texas statistics from the mid-'90s, saying about 1 in 320 electroshock patients died in the two weeks after treatment, though the deaths weren't necessarily caused by electroshock. The activists also say electroshock causes brain damage. Dr. Breggin says the damage produces delirium so severe that patients can't fully experience depression or other higher mental functions during the several weeks after electroshock...
...When you put a person in a situation with virtually no variety to their environmental stimulation and no meaningful way of occupying themselves, their mental state moves toward stupor and eventually delirium," Grassian said...