Word: dementia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...currently documenting the effect of high levels of lead on organ systems such as the fetal nervous system. In addition, he is trying to prove a correlation between lead and problems such as dementia in the elderly, hypertension and kidney failure...
...album's centerpiece is a 14 1/2-minute song called Change Your Mind that is equal parts rhapsody and guitar dementia and that describes the full course of a difficult love affair. It's a great Young song, clear of eye, bold of heart, with enough digressions to make it sound like something played live, for the first time, from some ghostly Fillmore stage. There is even a harmony in the chorus that is near Beatlesesque. On its own, this song is a demonstration that Young never has to worry about the depredations of rust. He has performed a classic Young...
...born actress's signature roles, as Blanche du Bois in the original 1947 production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire and as Daisy Werthan in the 1989 film Driving Miss Daisy, were both mid-century Southern belles. They were also polar opposites: a woman plummeting from nymphomania into dementia; a lady struggling to balance propriety and humanity. For Streetcar she won the first of three Tonys (the others were for two collaborations with Cronyn, The Gin Game in 1978 and Foxfire in 1982); for Miss Daisy she earned an Oscar as Best Actress in 1990. Two years later...
...wonder whether or not the asylum pretext is a license to disregard the demands of serious acting. The publicity for this show set up something of a false expectation: It's not profound, decadent perversion we get from Marat Sade, but rather sustained novelty and a few snapshots of dementia, something to smile at and walk away from...
Americans, especially high-mileage males, suffer a peculiar kind of dementia in the presence of gear; they are likely to buy any piece of overpriced sports equipment, so long as it has a digital readout or is made of something crucial to the success of the space station. Or both; Panasonic is advertising a tiny hand-held Global Positioning System (GPS) device, a little brother to the satellite navigation system developed for the military and now used in aircraft and yachts. This astonishing dingus will consult the stars (satellites, actually) and tell you, on land...