Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Norman Bates is back. It is 22 years since the friendly motelkeeper played by Anthony Perkins, 50, was led away to a California mental institution after his classic bathroom murder of Janet Leigh, 55, in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Middle-aged and pronounced cured, Norman has returned to town and wants to revamp his sagging hostelry. Directed by Richard Franklin, 34, who worked with Hitchcock as a student, Psycho II picks up the few surviving characters from the master's original. Vera Miles, 51, returns as Leigh's sister, "and Mom is definitely six feet under...
...cultural icon for the baby-boom generation, the symbol of the apple-pie joys and melted ice-cream sorrows of an idyllic suburban childhood that never really was. After a successful six-year run, Beaver went off network television in 1963, but it continued to flicker on the mental screens of a generation...
...play now for a team that wasn't in contention." Yastrzemski says, "It's easy for your mind to wan der, to come back to the dugout from the plate and think, 'Why did I swing at that pitch?' More than the physical part, the mental part kept me working out in the offseason. I wanted to stay with it mentally so that if it turned out I couldn't hit any more, at least I would know that I had given everything...
...time I've ever reflected about it was this year at the first Oldtimers Game ever at Fenway Park. I think twelve of the oldtimers were younger than I was. You don't have time to reflect, there's so much work to do, so much mental preparation. When the time comes, I'll still be with the Red Sox some way, maybe helping out in the Instructional League. But I won't go out on the road with a baseball team again. The fun is playing...
...game grows handsomely solemn when the Nobel Prize committee files into the mental boardroom. Literature degenerates into a responsibility. The Nobel Prize for Literature has of ten been set aside for the writer of greatest geopolitical obscurity (Yugoslavia's Ivo Andric, 1961). But the prize need not be a disgrace: a writer can rise above it. Saul Bellow (Nobel, 1976) has managed. Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978) has done what the greatest and liveliest usually do: he has made a world, a lost, magic place fall of God and demons and strange, tumbling life...