Word: inner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...style. In it, he wrapped his metaphysical bantering around a plot and made his characters real people, not, as in States, participants in a dramatic reading of his half-baked theories about life. When he sprinkles occasional bits of dialogue among the pontifications about "stimuli deprivation" and "the inner self," he displays a mastery of conversation a la soap opera; "I've got to be alone," says he. Perhaps Chayefsky knew what he had wrought, when, after a vintage Hollywood pissing contest with director Russell, he took his name off the credits as screenwriter. All it says is "From...
Lilly, however, was primarily interested in using the tank-sometimes with drugs-to explore "new inner domains of thinking." By increasing buoyancy and reducing the input to the senses, the tank can indeed produce bizarre effects. But Milton Greenblatt, a pioneer in sensory deprivation research and associate director of the U.C.L.A. Neuropsychiatric Institute, says he knows of no serious therapist who uses the tank, because it "produces symptoms rather than allaying them...
...black man slumped over the Buick's steering wheel with fatal wounds in the back of his head and between his shoulder blades. As residents of a nearby public-housing project milled about, James Bowden, 25, was taken to the morgue, another casualty of the war between inner-city Americans and the nation's embattled police. The policemen said that Bowden was suspected of robbing a grocery store and that after their warning shouts, he had tried to run one of them down and had threatened them with a gun. Three department investigations exonerated them in the shooting...
...those were names to conjure with, but others were around. Winston Churchill, bad boy of British politics, had just put out a book titled Amid These Storms about the unhappy drift of the democracies. Adolf Hitler was in the vestibules of German power and would pre-empt the inner sanctum come January of the next year. Joseph Stalin had the Soviet state in the palm of his hand. In sum, all the leaders who would contrive the shape of the midcentury world were now on stage -but little noticed. But the agonized present was enough for the American mind...
...cautioned, however, that Volcker is not likely to repeat his move of last spring and begin excessively increasing the money supply a second time if the economy starts to falter. Said Heller: "Volcker has had a burning experience, and he is now being driven almost by a sense of inner guilt. He eased up too much too soon, and he knows it. Now Volcker may be overcompensating...