Word: delirium
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...1960s Harvard wasn't much better, it seems. Dole wrote in his essay, "Homosexuality and Madness at Harvard," that in his second semester,"I became totally insane. I was driven out to McLean's Mental Hospital, where I ran around naked, shouting and banging my head.In my delirium, I saw one face that I recognized. He was looking down at me with pity, worry, and let us admit it: love. We had not exchanged one word in two years, and here we ended up together on the same ward of the same mental hospital, both victims of American psychiatrists trying...
...Delirium Yum Bizarre product names only enhance the 74-year-old German Ingo Maurer's status as the world's most outlandish lighting designer. Co-created with his colleague Sebastian Hepting, this 80-cm-tall version is the little sister of an installation at Maastricht's Kruisherenhotel, a renovated ex-monastery. The lava lamp pales in comparison with this motorized whirlwind in a water cooler, available in October. www.ingo-maurer.com...
...uncertainty rules what each of us defines as “mistake.” So was ’68 the best or worst from our parent’s generation? Was it Austerlitz or Waterloo? Should we focus on the dream of better opportunities or the delirium courtesy of LSD? Regardless, it remains forever useful to remember how our parents remembered our grandparents. In the pages of History, as Borges himself says, memorable moments need no memorable quotations. But the struggle for memory inevitably adds them, as a good editor in search of elusive imperishability. Our times might...
...delirium tremens - the acute alcohol-withdrawl state) scared us. Full-blown DTs has an unbelievably high mortality rate - 50%, according to some reports. There was one thing I was taught well by the old docs of my early career. DTs are a withdrawal state; you don't get them if you don't take away the alcohol. You kept the ladies and gentlemen of our town smooth, happy and alive if you kept up their intake in the hospital. Roger broke his hip in the late 80s, when cigarettes and whiskey had given way to yoga and granola bars...
...show relies as much on what is heard - the Martins' reworking of Beatles standards - as what is shown. Love is the most lavish expression of Cirque founder and boss Guy Lalibert?'s latest obsession: to merge the ballet-acrobat-theatrical Cirque style to modern music. He wants Delirium, with its Barnum & Bailey disco format, to fill nightclubs and arenas in large cities. Cirque is planning another Vegas show for 2008: a bio-evocation of Elvis...