Word: mental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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People told me it would be the ultimate test of mental toughness, of mind over body...
Folon's career can be seen, the artist proposes ironically, as a testament to the nurturing power of boredom. The son of a Brussels paper wholesaler, Folon quickly came to regard Belgium as "a mental prison, the most boring + place on earth." Art became his means of escape from stifling surroundings, as it was, he suggests, for such other Belgian-born painters as James Ensor and Rene Magritte. Like them, Folon took a strong turn for the fantastic, serving up the quotidian in images dreamy or irreal. But Folon's pictures, compact and whimsical, have always owed more...
...fatigue, mental mistakes, poor communication or the officiating...
...confidence going into the final game after blowing out Brown," said Hafferty, summing up the problems that plagued his squad in the final quarter against MIT. "We made a lot of mental mistakes on defense, and we weren't communicating well on offense. We just weren't as fresh as we normally are. I don't think I subbed properly in the first of half so we could be fresh for the end. We just couldn't get anything going because we were so tired...
...Angeles human-relations commission: "It is almost impossible for medical graduates from India to find residency positions in hospitals here. Many wind up in lower-paying jobs as lab technicians or hospital orderlies." Says Dr. Stanley Sue, director of the National Research Center on Asian American Mental Health: "Some people want you to be American, but then they treat you differently. Why, then, would you want to assimilate...