Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took two full weeks of nightmares and adjustment for me to get used to the manifestations of retardation. I eventually came to accept them as a fact of life. But no amount of dreaming or mental readjustment could ever get me to accept or even understand the miserable treatment given the children and adults who live at the Willowbrook State School and places like...
...Bourguinon. It's called Sundays and Cybele and it's playing at the Brattle. Cybele is a little girl in a home for abandoned and orphaned children and Sunday is the day she's visited by a young man who has just recovered from the bodily, but not the mental, wounds he suffered in the French Indochina wars. The friendship between the two might easily be merely touching or sentimental, but Bourguinon presents it with such range of feeling that Sundays and Cybele is one of the most genuinely moving films of the past decade. Stylistically, the film...
...Physicist Andrei Sakharov: "There are tens of thousands of citizens in the Soviet Union ... who want to leave the country and who have been seeking to exercise that right for years and for decades at the cost of endless difficulty and humiliation. You know that prisons, labor camps and mental hospitals are full of people who have sought to exercise this legitimate right. I am appealing to the Congress of the United States to give its support to the Jackson amendment...
...fighters, who died between the ages of 57 and 91, had more in common than their professions. Interviews with relatives and friends, plus reviews of boxing journals and other publications, revealed that all were bothered by physical and mental symptoms after they left the ring. Most developed speech difficulties and a Parkinson's-like syndrome with drooling and tremors. Some also became uncoordinated in their movements and unsteady on their feet...
...team was hurt by a costly mental error when Wood left his spinnaker pole on shore during one of the heats, resulting in a seventh place finish...