Word: mentality
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...contains more than enough colorfully staged capital crimes to satisfy its more bloodthirsty viewers, but those events take place within a densely layered plot and moral climate. The hired killer, Ledda (Jan Decleir), is a consummate and seemingly phlegmatic professional, now secretly shaken by the knowledge that his mental lights are dimming...
...staying young [Oct. 1, 1990]: "Listen to [Lynch] on the subject of aging?which, as so many things do, attracts and repels him. 'Scientists are working right now ... to give us a better life. I hope they make some big breakthroughs soon. If you could only reconcile the mental with the physical, then throw in the emotional! These growth hormones, where can I get a bunch of them? Is there some way that, with electricity, you could stimulate your own growth hormones? Plug yourself in for five minutes, there'd be a little jolt, but you'd get used...
...people? Well, seriously, why not? I want to be all things to all people.'" Brion waited for a moment, then burst into laughter. "I knew he wasn't kidding, and he's smart enough to know that wanting to be loved by everybody is probably really bad for your mental health, but at the same time his point was, you know, why not try?" You never know. He just might succeed...
...long until the conflict would widen beyond the Garden State. As of four summers ago, popped collars seemed an occasional oddity, something practiced by sailors, Cape-Codders and Tigers—rejected by the bulk of the country as indicative of preppiness, elitism, and general mental deficiency...
...drugs for the mind, as we should be. But we're putting ourselves in harm's way when we don't press for better diagnosis, better treatment. Because when we go into denial, what's going to happen far more often than not, is that those people with mental illnesses are going to wind up self-medicating with alcohol, with drugs. So then you're going to have a dual-diagnosis problem. And sooner or later they're going to run into the police, and they're going to be incarcerated. We're already disproportionately part of the penal system...