Word: dementia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Psychiatrist Smythies is not interested merely in Technicolored 3-dementia. Mescaline, he argues, produces the closest known facsimile of the symptoms of schizophrenia. Researchers who gave up looking for a physical cause of schizophrenia quit too soon, he believes, and largely because psychiatrists and biochemists did not get together on mescaline...
Hollywood, troubled by 3-dementia and TV tremens, has another ailment: wanderlust. In "the film capital of the world," only 27 pictures were in production last week (as against 33 a year ago). But there were 48 rolling in Italy and 13 in Mexico. "The industry," said the A.F.L.'s Hollywood Film Council, "is committing suicide by letting production go abroad...
Three-Dimension, "the four-eyed revolution," had hit the land hard. Quite by accident, as it walked around in a daze of depression, Hollywood had tripped over a firing cord and shot off a telling reply to television. "Third-dementia," the newest entertainment craze, was luring crowds back to the movies in such numbers as Hollywood had not seen since the end of World War II. By the millions they came, to peer through an eye-straining haze of alcohol and iodine (the basic ingredients of the H Polarizer) at a simple optical illusion whose principle was known to Euclid...
...disclose any of the more significant facts about himself: at 21 he had been arrested five times for automobile theft, had served two terms in boys' training schools, had done 26 months in a state reformatory, and spent five months in a mental hospital for treatment of dementia praecox. Edgar had never got past the sixth grade, had memory lapses, couldn't keep jobs, and-though he kept the fact from the recording sergeant-he had been classfied 4-F by his draft board...
Hollywood's three-dimension fever was still running high last week. But amidst all the 3-D gags ("We'll have to hire opticians instead of lawyers"), epithets ("third dementia"), and a rash of planned 3-D productions (15 feature movies in 1953), a few industry veterans began wondering aloud whether sudden salvation is really at hand. Is 3-D certain to save the sagging box office? Notable reservations and misgivings about 3-D's future...