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...freeloading fun in the public rooms and the gadget-strewn suites (each with its own bar). Upstairs was a great big polynesian-style restaurant, and downstairs was a great big gambling casino; across the street was another casino run by Reno's Bill Harrah and featuring Comedienne Phyllis Diller. Who could ask for anything more...
Unlike cramming bodies into telephone booths or rotating in Laundromat dryers, piano reduction is supposed to be scientific team tomfoolery with a high purpose. Explained Caltech Piano Reducer Robert W. Diller, head of the team: "Piano reduction has psychological implications which are pretty dear to us. It's a satire on the obsolescence of today's society. We're sending out a brochure to see if we can get competition started all over the world. We'll start with the Paris Conservatoire and the Juilliard School of Music...
Like a Pricked Bubble. Even among victims of strokes on the dominant side of the brain, says Psychologist Leonard Diller of New York's Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, there are two drastically different effects, depending on the severity of the brain damage. ''One type," he says, "is like a pricked bubble-after you've pricked it, the bubble isn't there any more. The personality seems to have vanished. The second seems unchanged in basic type, but less efficient...
Behavior changes are often paradoxical. Many patients with one-side paralysis tend to cry. Dr. Diller asks, "Are you sad?" and is told, "Yes, I'm sad because I can't stop crying." The doctor goes on: "Are you crying because you're sad?" The patient replies: "No, I'm not sad." Dr. Diller tells such a patient that when he feels a crying spell coming on, he should grip his wheelchair tightly with his good hand. By some unexplained crossover within the brain, the motor activity of the muscles is often a satisfactory substitute...
Blunted Senses. The power of speech, and the ability to write and walk, are measurable. Far more elusive, says Dr. Diller, are the variations in loss of memory. Usually, it is knowledge of recent and current events that seems to vanish. But it may be the memory of colors, or dates, or shapes, or perhaps most significant, of emotionally important events. Even the senses present puzzling problems. Vision may become poorer, but so subtly that the beset patient does not recognize his difficulty. Or he may be depressed by a general decline in his responsiveness to sensory stimuli...