Word: psychos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...program aimed at "robust responders"--medical jargon for high-functioning individuals. Founder Ken Steele, who for 32 years wandered across America homeless and schizophrenic, feels that the most formidable task for the mentally ill is overcoming the social stigma. "The public's synonym for us is still psycho," he says. "We are feared and misunderstood." Partly to counter this, individuals with mental illness call themselves "consumers"--an emotionally neutral word meant to suggest people who consume medications and services associated with psychiatric disability. A voting effort, for example, is called a consumer-registration drive; psychosocial rehabilitation is considered consumer-driven...
Anime is kids' cartoons: Pokemon, oh, yes, and Sailor Moon, a TV series about intergalactic Spice Girls that airs in a heavily edited version on the Cartoon Network. But it's also post-doomsday teen fantasies (Akira), futuristic fly-boy films (The Wings of Honneamise), schizo-psycho thrill machines (Perfect Blue), sex-and-samurai sagas (Ninja Scroll)--the works. "If you want to see a story told as fast as the most exciting comic book," McCarthy says, "but with amazing movement, music and dialogue, that's what you get from anime...
...Suddenly the psycho-esque beeping of an oncoming truck increased, and the last truck of the day pulled into make its final deposit. He pushed a button and the back of his truck went up with a swoosh. Tilting back, the truck purged its contents of splintered wood, three legged metal grade school desks, tattered sofa cushions and a myriad of dark tied trash bags. Returning itself to its normal position, the truck pulled away and the few remaining men began to disperse back out into the parking lot where their own pick up trucks awaited them...
...where he picked up smoking. In his 20s, he toured and sang (and smoked) with his own band, which still performs as 30 Odd Foot of Grunts. By 30, he had 10 films to his credit Down Under, most notably 1992's Romper Stomper, in which he played a psycho skinhead. Sharon Stone brought him to Hollywood for her 1995 western The Quick and the Dead. But it was his role as the pugilistic cop with a heart in the 1997 L.A. Confidential that finally ignited his career. Suddenly people were saying he was the next Brando. A-list directors...
...story of a charismatic anarchist (Brad Pitt) who starts up a group of men who beat the crap out of each other for fun, drawing in yuppie men chucking their grey flannel suits for a life of chaos. Other yuppie violence movies have stirred the male psyche recently - American Psycho and American Beauty just to name two. These movies all explore the deeper male mind, swimmingly (or perhaps frighteningly?) portraying academic vision of the subliminal self of the modern male. This string of sympathy for a group of people rarely sympathized with is only the beginning; nipping on the heels...