Word: feverish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...post-Freudian, Vienna. But the doings related in this film are strictly pre-Freudian, not to say prehistoric, in their banality. A rather dour young American psychiatrist (Art Garfunkel) is accosted at a party by a young American something or other (Theresa Russell), who is rather feverish in her gaiety. Instead of his suggesting a professional appointment, they decide to have an affair. But he cannot keep it light, and she cannot take it seriously; the rich variety of sexual experience she has had has led her to the conclusion that the pleasures of romance are always messy and impermanent...
...such attitudes were perceived in an individual, he would be exported to the lunatic fringe of whatever society he sought to live in. Feverish, volcanic, he would appear to be emotionally out of this world, existing in something very close to a social vacuum, in which his personal or political cause may mature and fester until it is both ripe and rotten for some terrible act. Love and respect are probably beyond his reach; he merely wishes to be noticed. If society should notice him by putting him away, his dreams would be both dead and complete...
...they failed. But as they rode an emotional roller coaster through the Republican National Convention, some of the coolest operators in U.S. politics clung to the heady notion that they could somehow restructure the American presidency in a mere 36 hours. Even after their feverish efforts collapsed, reducing their spirits from exhilaration to a despair tinged with bitterness, political intimates of former President Gerald Ford and Republican Presidential Candidate Ronald Reagan looked back wistfully at how close they felt they had come to working a strange sort of political miracle...
...from two to eight days after contact with the virus, most often through sexual activity, small red bumps may appear on the victim's genitals. These rapidly develop into tiny painful blisters; when they burst they can pour out millions of infectious virus particles. The victim may become feverish and, in the case of women especially, experience a sharp burning during urination. In about ten days the sores heal, but the viruses do not go away. They retreat to nerves near the lower spinal cord, remaining there for the life of the victim. Under pressure of stress, menstruation...
...public traffic in what used to be respected as intimate lore is conspicuous and feverish enough to have provoked some thought about the implications of the trend. Something more than a mere departure from decorum must be involved when a society begins to live habitually in a blizzard of under-the-rug sweepings. Only the simple-minded could shrug it off as nothing more than a side effect of the open and permissive social mode that emerged in the 1960s. Letting it all hang out may be refreshing and even healthy, but not under all circumstances; neither honesty nor candor...