Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past 30, goes to Florida to watch the filming of a T.V. documentary about his sensational escape from prison camp a decade before. Or the pattern is inverted in "Some Straight Numb Commitment." A pair of teenagers married straight out of high school become hired "parents" to a flabby mental case in his 20s, and his insanity tinges their inexperience with crazy shades of age and sexual maturity. Age roles are almost always convoluted and distorted. T.V. is a constant scoundrel...
...bars. Again the loser had been unsuccessful: two days later Hinckley was in satisfactory condition in the base hospital, watching TV. But the possibility that he had suffered brain damage was not ruled out. Says a Justice Department spokesman: "It is too soon to assess if his mental abilities will be affected...
...reaffirm their friendships with him. Bernays, founder of the public relations profession and nephew of Sigmund Freud, was having hundreds of parties all at once. Adopting his favorite professorial stance, Bernays had this to say about becoming ninety: "We have a chronological age, a physiological age, a mental, societal and emotional age. To be sure, my chronological age is ninety.... My physician tells me my physiological age is sixty-three. Mentally and socially, I feel no older than when I was fifty, and as to my emotional age discretion forbids my calculating that here." (Anyone in doubt should note that...
Next to crime and drugs, South Florida's most pressing problem is refugees. The 125,000 Marielitos who fled Cuba last year have strained the area's economy and aggravated its racial tensions, perhaps irretrievably. Nothing infuriates South Floridians as much as the deeds of the convicts and mental patients Castro sent along with the rest of the fleeing Cubans. Officials estimate that as many as 5,000 Marielitos are hard-core criminals. This year 53 refugees have been arrested in Miami for murder, and many more have been jailed for rapes and robberies. Fifty-one Marielitos themselves have been...
...finally, Michael turns on his tormentors, he does so by concocting a plan that permits him and the audience a revenge that is all the sweeter because it does not involve firearms, brawling or, for that matter, even a raised voice. What it amounts to is a kind of mental and moral jujitsu in which his pursuers' own eagerness is employed to trip them...