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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Has she seen any good movies lately? | 10/21/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Natasha H. Leland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Garden of Scorpions' a Generic 1950s Romance, Russian-Style | 10/7/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tripping the Night Fantastic | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Santa Leaves a Six-Pack | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

...featuring 60 of his biggest hits and wildest productions. This is rock at its grandest and giddiest. Spanning nearly a quarter-century, classics like Be My Baby and Then He Kissed Me are three-minute operas of teen passion, which have endured because of the grandeur and unapologetic delirium of the Spector style. His production techniques are elaborate and near legendary, but even if they could be duplicated, it wouldn't be the same. The Wall of Sound may have been created in the studio, but it's truly the fragile insulation around Spector's wild heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Dec. 2, 1991 | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

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