Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mosque's priceless Afghan and Iranian carpets. Moments later, when police arrived, they found Goodman hiding in a room beneath the rock. He immediately surrendered, telling police: "I had to do it. They are killing my friends and relatives. I am taking revenge." Whatever his motive, his mental state or his political affiliations may have been, his assault on the Muslim holy place killed two people and wounded nine, and unleashed fury and passions throughout Jerusalem and the West Bank that resulted in injuries to as many as 100 more...
After a brief two-hour Good Friday session. Judge Meyer granted a defense request for an out-of-state subpoena to get mental health records for one of Hussain's alleged victims. Defense Attorney Kenneth M. Goldberg said yesterday that he expected the records would show that one of the alleged victims had been committed to a mental institution...
...interweaving the psychological and the political into a dense web that forces the viewer to get involved. The Deer Hunter did; it made Vietnam an integral element, never just a backdrop. Circle of Deceit, on the other hand, turns the rubble and bodies of present-day Beirut into mere mental furniture for its protagonist. It could just as well have been Angola, Iran or El Salvador. And as an Everymodernman, the protagonist could have been French or American as well as German...
Petersen's success in drawing the viewer into the characters' physical setting creates a sense of empathy for their mental anguish even if they are somewhat caricatured. The heroically low-keyed captain (Jurgen Prochnow) combines the steely bright blue eyes of an American astronaut with the scruffy beard and weathered skin of an old salt and leads a crew including an ever-dependable lieutenant, a neophyte war correspondent and more than one boy in love...
...that is about all. Five years ago, the water in the pool flowed back and forth, and we had to fill it. But I try not to panic my tenants. We have an ideal climate here. We are close to everything. You adapt." Adds David G. Edwards, director of mental-health services in the county: "I have not treated a single case of earthquake anxiety yet." Edwards works in Hollister but lives 40 miles away in Monterey, out of prime temblor territory...