Word: hyperthyroid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refused and sounded the horn again. That did it. Janis, as a fan reported, "simply went nuts," blistering the air with a string of oaths and obscenities, whereupon the cops hustled her off to jail on charges of using profanity and indecent language. Free on bail, the queen of hyperthyroid blues insisted: "I say anything I want onstage. I don't mind getting arrested because I've turned a lot of kids...
...handed direction of Francis Ford Coppola, 29, whose only previous Hollywood feature was the moderately comic You're a Big Boy Now. Astaire and Clark are saddled with threadbare brogues, and both talk as if they were dictating letters to a tape recorder. Tommy Steele's hyperthyroid performance mistakes popped eyeballs for emotion and shrieks for singing. Coppola's idea of a scene-stopper is a bunch of flowers. Whenever the action halts, he brings on fields of roses, daffodils and chrysanthemums. Ennui is so frequent that by the end, Finian's Rainbow boasts more bouquets...
Lawman. Well aware that he sometimes comes over as a hyperthyroid hippie, Kennedy trimmed both his tresses and his rhetoric to please the Hoosiers. He made vaguely conservative sounds about big, distant government. He never stopped saying that the U.S. must cure the causes of racial unrest, but he stressed the need for peace in the streets. "Violence won't get you better housing or better jobs or better education for your children," he told Negroes. He reminded white listeners: "I was the chief law-enforcement officer of the U.S. for 3½ years. This nation must have...
...King Farouk awarded her Egypt's highest civilian decoration, and she reciprocated by singing political songs, first, Farouk, May You Live Forever and later, for Nasser, Gamal and the Nile Are Creators of the Dam. When, in 1953, a black-bordered box in Egyptian newspapers reported that a hyperthyroid condition endangered her voice, no doctor in the Middle East dared to treat her for fear of damaging "Allah's treasure." At the invitation of the U.S. Government, she was treated successfully with isotopes at the Bethesda Naval Medical Center...
...Television, on the other hand, has stuck to a single standard: simple-minded cartoons for kids, simple-minded programs of every other variety for grownups. Now all that is changed. Television has brought the comics to adults. It comes in the form of Batman, a new twice-a-week hyperthyroid series on ABC. Produced with an enormous amount of pulp and circumstance, it has become an overnight smash...