Word: mentalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mental block that plagued us in the imaginative quest for higher office was the delusion that politics is an end in itself. After all, it is very easy to equate it to gaming and make a sport of it. The farcical nature of Washington life, combined with personalities galore and the definite win-lose scoreboard on every bill and election, do much to lighten the serious business of government. Seen in this light, politics is only nominally different from baseball. The front page news holds little greater levity than that on the back page...
Alas, most romances don't survive the move offscreen. A cybersweetheart rarely lives up to the mental image created of him or her. And no wonder, say psychologists, since that image largely reflects the reader's needs and desires rather than the other person's reality...
...answer lies in tradition. The abolition of grades would demand a gargantuan mental shift throughout the college. It is highly unlikely that such a radical solution to grade inflation will be accepted in the near future, if ever...
...nobody who dreams of being a somebody." So went the trailer blurb for Martin Scorsese's mesmerizing "Taxi Driver," a portrait of an ordinary guy whose mind works a little differently from the rest of us. Before our eyes, Travis Bickle slides deeper and deeper into a mental abyss, into a world buffeted on all sides, as he believes, by the sordidness of the city around him--until he finally takes action...
...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 to drastic means to make something happen. First stalking the senator, then turning...