Word: roles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What causes SAD is a mystery. Experts suspect there is a genetic factor, because more than two-thirds of those with the syndrome have a close relative with a mood disorder. Also baffling is the exact role that the absence or presence of light plays in seasonal mood shifts. Among the theories: a disturbance in the body's natural clock and abnormal production of melatonin, a hormone manufactured in the brain, and serotonin, a chemical that helps transmit nerve impulses...
...fellow's image is everywhere in Japan -- on Mitsubishi bankbooks, in framed photos within Zen temples, even on Emperor Hirohito's wristwatch. "Mickey Mouse is an actor," explains the slogan on the cover of a Mickey Mouse diary, "and as such he can do anything; he can play any role...
...role he definitely plays is to support another of Japan's driving principles: pleasure as big business. Foot-high dolls of his consort Minnie in kimono go for more than $60 in Tokyo Disneyland, and the number of ice creams sold there in a single year would, if piled up, reach 14 times as high as 12,388-ft. Mount Fuji...
...classical music. A century after the great flowering of music in the U.S. that saw the establishment of many of the major orchestras and the opening of Carnegie Hall and the Metropolitan Opera, American orchestras and opera companies face an unprecedented challenge. Unsure of their role in modern society, the large institutions have embraced an aging, hidebound repertory. Too timid to seek out new directions, they have been seduced by a museum philosophy that has consigned them to the rear guard of contemporary musical life. Afflicted by systemic deficits, they coddle their subscribers but fear bold steps in programming that...
...films their sleek, self- satisfied zing. But 90 minutes of Murphy, prowling the stage in duds of black and blue (just like his comedy), can wear thin when the text of his sermon is the cupidity of women and the stupidity of men. Richard Pryor, Murphy's stand- up role model, earned his right to obscene rage. In the younger, middle- class comic, anger seems a petulant pose. Like any sham evangelist, he can entertain without convincing. And even in this ragged turn, a viewer can do with Murphy's comedy what Murphy complains most women want to do with...