Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That is the least of his worries, however. Where the movie seems thinnest is in its symbolic attempt to weld Hurt's stagey character to Babenco's overriding theme about cinema as a kind of mental panacea...
...opener of George Burns Comedy Week also gives cause for optimism, if not wild enthusiasm. Catherine O'Hara, a talented alumna of the SCTV comedy troupe, plays a mental patient who slips instantly into whatever role is suggested to her. Mistaken for a clerk in a stereo store, she becomes an expert on audio equipment; when police confuse her with a member of the bomb squad, she proceeds to defuse an explosive device planted in a store basement. It is the sort of loony conceit that could be sunk by heavy-handed treatment. With the delightful O'Hara and just...
...shelters" stand, these Cantabrigians dug up a nine-year old local statute which limits the number of "community lodgings and personal care lodging houses" to one for every 5000 residents in a neighborhood. Enacted long before Reaganomics exacerbated the plight of the homeless. Ordinance 868 was designed to spread mental hospitals and temporary care facilities evenly throughout the city. But since the regulation became law, not one new shelter has opened anywhere in the city...
...Canaday, mainly for freshmen with mobility problems such as broken legs and with serious illnesses. But, they also have been known to be open to some students who just need a vacation from their assigned suite. Freshman officials, however, stress that roommates should stay the course before resorting to mental sabbaticals...
...Other Hispanics call them "the hads" (los tenia) because so many of their sentences supposedly begin "In Cuba, I had . . ." These Cubans in turn contrast themselves with others who fled in the 1980 boatlift from the port of Mariel, a minority of whom had been inmates of prisons or mental hospitals. The word Marielito, flung by one Cuban American at another, can be a fighting insult...