Word: insomnia
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...marine, Bickle has found himself stricken with insomnia, and, in the movie's opening scene, decides to undertake driving the moonlight shift on a taxi cab simply as a way of filling up the time. Increasingly fed up with the sordid people he encounters in his midnight runs--prostitutes, pimps, pushers and various basket cases--he begins a strict physical and mental regimen in pursuit of some goal at which we can only guess. After an innocent attempt to woo a senator's aide (Cybill Shepherd) and to rescue a teenage prostitute (Jodie Foster) from the streets, Travis resorts...
Shift work may also cause disorders such as insomnia and ulcers, according to Dr. Gary S. Richardson, director of the sleep disorders service at Brigham and Women's Hospital...
Wurtman says he and other MIT professors discovered in 1971 an amino acid called which small doses, secretes the hormone serotonin and thereby induces sleep. He says he thought this would be a good cure for insomnia and widely published the results...
Indeed, the most powerful scenes in the play are those in which there is no dialogue at all. Flee's hysterical, No-Doz-induced insomnia, her midnight searches for the secret photos, areintensely claustrophobic, and manage to turn the Old Library's small stage into an asset. (The same cannot be said for the poor sightlines, which often keep one or both of their actor's faces out of view). The scene in which Jarred photographs the sleeping Flee achieves a genuine eroticism and a powerful sense of violation; there is a risk of awkwardness in dealing with these topics...
...After that, we never hear anything about Scalopino or Sophie again; the novel switches back to Bennett's Memphis boyhood. We meet Florida, the Black housekeeper who shows Bennett more love than does his father, distant and scarred by memories of war, or his mother, prone to fainting spells, insomnia and compulsive eating. We also meet John, Bennett's best friend, with whom Bennett builds clever contraptions...