Word: mental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That loss] really frustrated everyone, and really affected our play for the rest of the tournament," Heit said. "Our poor performance overall was really the consequence of problems with our mental game...
During the final part of the conference, "Imaging of Cognitive Functions," Harvard Professor of Psychology Stephen M. Kosslyn shared new results in visual and mental imagery...
...victory this weekend lies in the elimination of little mistakes. All season, the team has shown flashes of potential interspersed with careless mental mistakes...
Humor is the most important of these resources. Lee responds to a mention of her son's stay in a mental institution: "We don't like to call it the mental institution, we call it the loony bin or the nuthouse to show we have a sense of humor about it." Lee undercuts our inclination to pity a homeless woman who has to take her two children to live in a church: "On Sundays," she tells us, "the nuns roll out a sheet of dough and, with a shot glass, they cut out those--you know, what do you call...
Director David Petrarca is meticulously attentive to the strengths of both the text and the actors. The scene between Bessie and Hank on a warm Florida night and the one between Hank, his mother, and his psychiatrist at the mental institution, are beautifully staged. Petrarca directed the world premiere of Marvin's Room in 1991 at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, where he is currently resident director, and then continued with the show to the Hartford Stage Company, Playwrights Horizons, off-Broadway at the Minetta Lane Theatre, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington...