Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...murder by reason of insanity; they were convinced the officer had experienced a "psychotic episode" triggered by an epileptic disease so rare that medical experts had never heard of it. Torsney's first and last "Seizure" occurred the moment he killed the child. He was released from a mental ward in 1979 when doctors could find nothing wrong with...
Benton's pacing accentuates this type of suspense. He makes frequent use of flashbacks, as Rice goes over his notes regarding his sessions with the murdered man. Rather than gimmicks to fill in gaps in the plot, however, these scenes are shown clearly as Rice's mental processes. In one scene, for example. Rice is distracted by a sound in an adjacent room. The flashback suddenly breaks off and the camera once again focuses on Rice in the present, wondering what the noise was. A moment later, he dismisses the sound and returns to his memory; the flashback continues precisely...
...going, but were back for the finish. Moseley's third field goal of the day with four seconds left beat the New York Giants, 15-14, and made the record 21. "I had no idea what yard line it was on," said Moseley, an uncomplicated man who leaves mental check lists to golfers. "All I do is swing my leg straight." Even though it was tipped by a Giant, the ball twirled the needed...
...system is like nothing I've ever heard of," freshman recruit Lori Stewart says of her coach. "She's very demanding, and she gets into a lot of mental concentration-imagery training. For example, if she doesn't feel we're playing our best in practice, she'll ask us to take a few minutes, close our eyes, and think of ourselves doing the drills at our best," Steward explains...
...poet was a manic-depressive, and his mental illness wreaked havoc on his poetry, to say nothing of his love affairs. He went through periods of creative barrenness that sometimes lasted up to a year. It was when he became manic, or "high" as his friends described it, that he would have to spend time in mental institutions--then he was irrational, a danger to his friends and lovers. Except for Stafford, the women he married--Hardwick and, late in his life, Lady Caroline Blackwood--demonstrated an almost supernatural capacity to stick with Lowell through his bouts with mental illness...