Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...didn't have an answer then, but the Muse seems to have instilled something of a mental picture in my mind. There Lenny, with bunches of school children marching beside him like they did three weeks ago at the opening of the Ave. Bridge. As the mayor and troupe of little followers knock on the St. Peter's pearly gates. Lenny leaned over and, politician-style out of the corner of his mouth, asks the venerable doorkeeper a rather pointed question "So whaddya think...
...United Nations, named by an ex-Governor of Georgia who's going to be President of the United States; and then you will come back to be mayor of the city of Atlanta' -- the only thing I could have done would be to recommend them to the nearest mental institution...
Emily Gilbert was afflicted with Alzheimer's disease, which causes severe mental deterioration. She also suffered from osteoporosis, a bone disease that frequently leads to fractures and pain. On March 4 her husband fulfilled what he said were his wife's wishes when he pumped two bullets from his 9-mm Luger into her temple as she lay on the sofa in their Fort Lauderdale condominium. Then he turned himself...
...says Sam Wolfe, a recent University of North Carolina law school graduate. "I can't remember a single business meeting in a long time where anybody's had a drink," says Warner LeRoy, owner of New York City's Maxwell's Plum. When someone orders a stiff one, "a mental trigger goes off with other executives at the table," says Jay Chiat, chairman of the Los Angeles-based Chiat/Day advertising firm. "It's not being judgmental; it's just that it's so much rarer...
...just as well. McCullough's claim to inverse greatness in this book does not rest on what she tells but on her miraculous ability to tell it | ludicrously. She seems to emulate a process she admiringly ascribes to Dr. Christian: "to ruminate some particularly knotty concept into smooth mental paste." Hence the cascade of cliches, many per page and even paragraph. An adviser tells the President: "It's a hot potato, none hotter. We may be biting off more than we can chew." The "cool lustrous brain" of Judith Carriol manifests itself dimly: "The less people involved, the better...