Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After their last session, Neruda notes, "I have to admit a surge of vanity: I was proud of what I had wrought." A bit later he hears from his former patient, "You cured me. I'm not a neurotic anymore. It's just that I can't bear the normal misery of life." The message is read to the doctor over the phone by a detective investigating Gene's murder of his wife and subsequent suicide...
...Louise Joy Brown on July 25, 1978, with fanfare fit for a princess. Many hailed her as a technological godsend, dubbing her the "Baby of the Century." However, theologians and some scientists sounded ethical alarms. Others questioned whether the girl conceived in a petri dish could ever lead a normal life. The answer? Almost. According to London's Daily Mail, Brown works in a burger joint and is studying to be a school nurse--but is reportedly buoyed by a trust fund of earnings from TV projects and the book written by her parents. Brown is a firm believer...
...blast will fade into the background and life will return to normal. Memorials will be held, bodies will eventually float to the surface and relatives will bury their dead. For now, all that remains are the quiet whispers of the waves, lapping up against the shore...
...that Pat's husband Ed (Erik Amblad) can't seem to muster up genuinely powerful emotions. In a play running at normal speed, he's still stuck moving in 33 RPM. The only real life he shows in all of the first act appears when Pat gives him an overzealous shoulder massage, making him bounce up and down on the couch during his monotonous monologue. What a pity that the life he possesses in this scene is drawn entirely from another person's action...
...integrate Dan O'Brien the athlete with Dan O'Brien the person. "It was really, really interesting for me," he says now. "I was happy practicing, but I wasn't happy all the time. I kept wondering what would it be like if I was just a normal person, if I had a normal job." Now, he says, he no longer wonders. The "world's greatest athlete" realizes there is nothing for him to do but keep competing until his body betrays him. The key, O'Brien has learned, is the number one, as in "one day at a time...