Word: dementia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most common cause of dementia in the elderly, Alzheimer's killed some 100,000 Americans last year and afflicts 2.5 million with what has been called the death of the mind. Symptoms include severe loss of memory and personality changes that range from angry outbursts to withdrawal and depression. Diagnosis -- at best tentative -- has been possible only through a process of eliminating other brain ailments that could cause similar symptoms...
...final interview, conducted by California psychologist and radio evangelist James Dobson, Bundy tearfully cited the media as a source of his dementia. Perhaps playing to his inquisitor, a member of the 1986 federal pornography commission, Bundy said, "Those of us who are . . . so much influenced by violence in the media, in particular pornographic violence, are not some kind of inherent monsters. We are your sons, and we are your husbands, and we grew up in regular families...
DEAD RINGERS. David (The Fly) Cronenberg directs a spooky parable of split identity: twin gynecologists drive themselves to dementia and a symbiotic suicide-murder...
...subject of twin gynecologists, driven to dementia and a symbiotic murder-suicide by urges that both share but neither understands, seems a scenario only Cronenberg could dream up. In fact, the story comes from the novel Twins, by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland, which in turn was based on the case history of Drs. Cyril and Stewart Marcus, a pair of respected gynecologists who in 1975 were found dead in a Manhattan apartment. From these threads Cronenberg has spun a fantasia of split personality and the vulnerable male ego. The film's identical twins, Elliot and Beverly Mantle (both played...
...Rendell now indulges readers in The Veiled One (Pantheon; 278 pages; $17.95). If the underlying appeal of most mysteries is the promise of moral order, that may explain why fans have such a hard time with Rendell's psychological novels, which are eerily nonjudgmental in the face of true dementia, and why they are so comforted by Wexford's moral outrage and Burden's unwavering duty. Both characters are in fine form in this new tale, which begins with a murder and an explosion and ends with a solution and the reconstruction of the bombed house...