Word: dementia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team of Harvard doctors has discovered a protein "cement" that may be the primary cause of the sever memory loss and behavioral changes caused by Alzheimer's disease, known also as senile dementia, which affects 10-15 percent of people over age 65. If, through further research scientists can determine what prompts the formation of this "cement," they may be able to develop a means of heating senility entirely...
...supporting cast: Sarrazin is one big he-man blah: you have to wonder how Edwards can keep a straight face during his work, which is embarrassing; and Stevens demonstrates his dementia by alternately flaring his nostrils and holding his nose between his palms. He does, however, do a good job of sweating as he watches Morgan bathe-an incredibly flagrant exposition of erotica-from the bedroom closet where he is hidden...
...equally at home on the range, leading The Wild Bunch to one last dustup with destiny. Moving and speaking with the languid grace of inherited wealth (his father ran a chemical business), he wooed Audrey Hepburn into maturity in Sabrina and shepherded Gloria Swanson through the gaudy dementia of Sunset Boulevard. His easy sexual authority dared women to try to impress him. One who did, Kim Novak, made film history with Holden: their slow dance in Picnic (1956) remains an electrifying expression of romantic passion. In the '60s, Holden found refuge in the wilds of Kenya, where he supported...
...things, on the evidence of Hepburn's films of the '50s and '60s: the lonely triumph of spinsterhood (Summertime, The African Queen, The Rainmaker), the sad declineinto dementia (Suddenly Last Summer, Long Day's Journey into Night). These later roles gave her the opportunity to soar, and she played each lovely chance to the hilt, whether she was getting morosely drunk over a lemonade in Pat and Mike (1952) or losing herself in heroin and reverie as O'Neill's Mary Tyrone...
Americans can no longer afford to keep moving to fresh landscape farther and farther from the cities; gasoline is too expensive. So the price of the limited desirable land available rides up on the cost push. In some places-parts of California, for example-the great speculative housing dementia has cooled down recently. But the damage has been done...