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This conceptual schizophrenia emerges in Alex Brooks' set design: neither minimalist, nor realist, but rather an uneasy mixture of the two. Brooks seems to have mistaken epic literalness, which arises from social connotation, with the notion of approximating reality. While the set should be merely suggested, minimal and stripped of reality, the props must be realistic and literal. This idea, inherent to the epic, becomes curiously reversed in Brooks' design. The sets strive for realistic representation, as in Newgate prison. Props, on the other hand, crowd the production, devoid of social significance. What, for example, is the purpose...
...snack. As he walked along Wisconsin Avenue, Lacy encountered three Milwaukee patrolmen, burly members of the department's tactical squad who were looking for a suspect in a rape that had just occurred in the neighborhood. They tried to subdue Lacy whose mental disorders had included acute schizophrenia. According to some witnesses, Lacy was pinned to the street; one patrolman reportedly placed his knee against Lacy's neck, handcuffed the young man's arms behind his back and raised them high above his head. Later, in the paddy wagon, another arrested man noticed that Lacy had stopped...
Anderson told an audience of 60 at Longfellow Hall that "to serve our people veritably, we must achieve in the dominant white man's society," but that attempting simultaneously to maintain tribal traditions results in "a kind of controlled schizophrenia...
Some researchers are using PET scans to explore the brains of people suffering from schizophrenia, manic-depressive illness and senile dementia. Their hope is that by scanning hundreds, even thousands, of patients with such conditions, distinctive patterns of biochemical activity will emerge, making diagnosis easier and more precise. Says Chemist Alfred Wolf of Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island: "A diagnosis with cognitive tests, for example memory quizzes, takes days. The whole PET procedure takes under 90 minutes...
...editor fired during last week's shakeup, the News's revamped strategy was just another example of the editorial schizophrenia that destroyed Tonight. "They are trying to go back downscale now," said she. "But they forget the reason we went upscale is that downscale wasn't working." -By BJ. Phillips. Reported by Janice C. Simpson/New York