Word: delirium
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...baboons responded to the booze -equivalent to about a fifth per day for a man-just as humans would. They became intoxicated and, ultimately, dependent upon drink. Two of the animals became so addicted to alcohol that they experienced withdrawal symptoms, including what seemed to be delirium tremens, or DTs, when off the bottle...
...complex, intelligent and totally lacking in hortatory propaganda. Tomas Gutierrez Alea is a director of cool passion and careful control. It is the measured force of Memories of Under development, as well as the novelty of its appearance, that has occasioned a critical reception somewhere between rapture and delirium. Yet just as it does not merit governmental suspicion, the movie cannot fully sustain that kind of response...
...complexities rising from the fact that Venice is not one but three different cities. There is the historic town built on 118 alluvial islands in a lagoon, plus two other communities on the mainland: the bleak, modern residential suburb of Mestre, which the daily Corriere della Sera calls a "delirium of concrete," and the huge, fume-filled industrial port of Marghera. Any action to help Venice often turns out to harm her ugly sisters. For example, Venice is sinking in part because the pumping of fresh water from artesian wells in Mestre and Marghera depletes the underground "cushion" of water...
...satisfied?" Dubuffet chirruped. Moreover, he likes Manhattan, especially Wall Street, where one of his sculptures has been installed. Said he, relaxed as could be: "It is the solar plexus of the world. It is the heart where the blood comes from. There is a high madness, a delirium because of the tension...
...good thing and devalue, say, 99% ? The remaining 1% would serve to prove we are not totally greedy-and then, too, the dollar should retain some worth. I suppose, otherwise we might reach an economic Utopia before America is psychologically prepared. Who knows what sort of mass delirium might be triggered if everything could be bought with absolutely worthless dollars...