Word: dementia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hall of the Brooklyn Academy of Music in which Sylvia Plath is being presented offers audiences a tier of backless stone-hard benches set so closely together that one playgoer's knees poke into another playgoer's back. Combined with Plathian dementia, it is a rather grim evening for body and soul. ·T. F. Kalen
GOOD EVENING. Dementia ridicula rules this revue. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore are the laugh-loony culprits...
With his shuffling gait, slurred speech and foggy memory, the punch-drunk boxer is a stock character in movies and fiction, a mainstay of many a stand-up comic's nightclub routines. But there is nothing funny about the condition some doctors call "dementia pugilistica." Doctors have known for years that a hard blow to the head can slam the jelly-like brain against the rigid skull and cause permanent damage. Now a trio of British researchers has documented just how serious-and how widespread among boxers-this damage is likely to be. In a study published last month...
Psycho, the Alfred Hitchcock film with the famous death-in-the-shower scene. Also Dementia (1955) by John Parker. Kirkland House...
...reader who does not resist the flow absorbs a sense of Havana at the end of Batista's reign: overripe, tainted, almost innocent. The time is generally city-night in Cabrera Infante's narrations. The punning speakers are young dementia peacocks: an actor, a photographer, an assortment of nightclub chicks. They drink, flirt, gossip, listen to music, flip tag lines from American movies at each other...