Word: hypo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...playgoers dearly cherish a theatrical hypo, and Broadway desperately needed an Equus. Almost as desperately as did Richard III. Why has this boy done this horrendous thing? The structure of the play is like that of a trial in which the witness and culprit, Alan Strang (Peter Firth), is coaxed, tricked and thundered at by a prosecuting psychiatrist, Martin Dysart (Anthony Hopkins). In a way, Dysart is a physician who cannot heal himself. At the Rokeby Psychiatric Hospital in southern England, he is a skeptical practitioner of Freudian exorcism. He is a devotee of reason yearning for Dionysian revels...
...This will be the wide-open Open," announced Billy Talbert, director of the U.S. Open Tennis Championships at Forest Hills, N.Y. If he sounded like a carny barker trying to hypo the gate, it was understandable. Partly because of the wearying pro v. amateur power struggle that has long plagued tennis, six of the top professionals -Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, Roy Emerson, Fred Stolle, Cliff Drysdale and Andres Gimeno-declined to enter the tournament. Margaret Court Smith, the defending women's champion, could not come because she is pregnant. Wimbledon Champ Evonne Goolagong, the 20-year-old Australian aborigine...
...another sad preoccupation. "Successful suicide," Greene writes, "is often a cry for help that has not been heard in time." With some slight prurience, he describes his schoolboy attempts to cut a vein in his leg, swallow deadly nightshade berries, handfuls of aspirin and, finally, a draft of darkroom hypo-all with no serious results. But when he ran away from school at age 16, his father sent him down to London in 1920 to be psychoanalyzed. The six-month period of analysis, Greene revealingly admits, was the most peacefully pleasant time of his life, along with a brief, comfortable...
...carpeting, floor-length mirrors-but right away you begin to hurt. "Hear that grinding noise?" says your chesty instructor, as he leads you through some neck rotations. "You're breaking down calcium deposits." During the pelvic lift, he explains: "This is good . . . one and two and lift . . . for hypo-kinetic tension . . . and two and hyperventilate. Bet you can't kick your butt," he says, kicking his butt. He is right...