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...that classic film, he swings his limbs in happiness and flashes his teeth in anger, expressing each emotion to its extreme. Still, says Torres, that energy made him a force of nature who was sometimes difficult to restrain. The film’s first wardrobe person had a nervous breakdown and quit the film after working with Carlos.He does, however, have a sensitivity that sticks in the viewer’s mind, and he’s utterly convincing as a child coping with grotesquely adult circumstances. In one scene, Chava picks up a rifle to defend his family from...
Finally, a proliferation of rankings would alleviate many students and their families of a great deal of pressure. Application season in elite America is a time of great suffering. Admissions porn litters the living rooms of millions of ambitious families, most of them in a state of nervous collapse. College-bound seniors exhaust saliva from the sheer fatigue of sealing envelopes, frantically competing for seats on the Great Meritocratic Conveyor Belt...
Some of this angst spills over into Lane the actor. Watch him in The Birdcage: there's no denying his virtuosity, but he goes so big, and in so many directions at once, that his performance sometimes feels brittle and campy and nervous and look-at-me, as if he is running away from real emotion...
...course, it is possible to get too much physical activity, not just because overactivity raises the possibility of damaging joints, muscles and bones, but also because of the possible adverse effects on body composition, the nervous system and reproductive and immune function. Knees are especially vulnerable, and surgical methods for repairing them are less than ideal. Repeated concussive injuries, as in football and soccer, may be associated with cognitive impairment in later life. That said, far more people in our culture err on the side of getting too little physical activity than too much...
Whatever objective stress you have to deal with, you can learn to activate the so-called relaxation response, a shift within the autonomic nervous system from sympathetic dominance (the fight-or-flight response) to parasympathetic dominance (the heart rate slows, blood pressure falls and metabolism and immunity are optimal). You can evoke the relaxation response in many ways: by working on your breathing, practicing yoga, taking biofeedback training, floating in water or stroking a cat or dog that you love...