Word: quiets
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Midsummer is supposed to be a quiet time in sports--the lazy hammock suspended between the end of basketball and the start of football. In baseball the pennant races are still at a gentle trot, supporting the fans' antique dream of sport as a refuge from front-page reality...
...This quiet revelation stays with me the next time I ride the subway to work. I wonder what would happen if I smile at the person sitting across from me. The next night, when I slip out with my eyes to the pavement, I think that if I look up, I might see into another person deeply enough, and, completely by accident, find the part of them that might have said to that little girl, “That’s very sweet of you. You’re so kind...
...hasn’t all been one-sided. My grown-up proctees still have to fill out forms to have parties, they still have to adhere to quiet hours, and they're only allowed to have guests over for two nights. When a proctee broke her ankle two weeks ago, it was my job to respond. When one gets locked out, I’m the one that helps them back into their room...
Clearly not all comics are troubled. Many, like Bob Newhart and Jay Leno, have enjoyed long marriages and relatively quiet lives. But plenty of others, like John Belushi and Chris Farley, died as the result of addictions. No one has studied the mental health of comics specifically - it's pretty hard to get celebrities to agree to answer a nosy mental health survey - but "there's a high rate of mood disorders among performers in general," says Andrew Leuchter, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California at Los Angeles who has treated comics. "This is a high stress...
...think over time that will be something we will start to look at. We felt that with this generation, what was far more important was making a hardware system that was approachable-something people could look at and say, 'I want this in my home. It is small, quiet and intuitive and I know how to use it.' As HD adoption rates increase, it is likely that we may start looking at that in the future...