Word: stressful
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...seem odd that Holzer was chosen for the Biennale over artists like Susan Rothenberg or Elizabeth Murray. But one should remember that America is touchy about its lack of literacy; someone must have wanted to stress that American artists can write. Besides, elitism is an extremely dirty word in art circles these days, and whatever else she may be, Holzer is no elitist. Her work is so faultlessly, limpidly pedestrian as to make no demands of any sort on the viewer, beyond the slight eyestrain induced by the LEDs...
John McCarthy, executive director of the Association of Quality Clubs, reports that 25% of his 1,550 member clubs offer seminars in nutrition, stress management and smoking cessation; 25% have weight-loss programs; and 12% provide courses in self-esteem. Among the more adventurous is the Saw Mill River Club in Mount Kisco, N.Y., which conducts lectures on self-healing and hypnosis and occasionally brings in a sex therapist for a panel discussion...
...Club's "life-style assessment," clients may be asked what they eat for breakfast and how much alcohol they drink. At all 40 centers of the nationwide Club Corporation of America, new members are queried by a fitness specialist about their income level and, to assess their state of stress, whether they have witnessed a violent fight in the past year. Women are asked whether they have had a hysterectomy. "We ask questions that many clubs will not," says Club Corporation's Stephen Tharrett. "But we care, and there are all facets of life we try to help people with...
Doctors have warned about the dangers of high blood pressure for nearly a century, ever since U.S. brain surgeon Harvey Cushing and others noted that measuring blood flow was a good way of determining how much stress the heart was under. But exactly what physicians mean by "high" has shifted over the years. Now it appears that the danger point may be lower than previously thought...
Arachnophobia is given extra dimension by borrowing yet another technique made famous by Hitchcock. In Psycho and Rebecca, Hitchcock explored the results of placing psychologically-burdened characters under severe stress, forcing them to confront their worst fears. Jennings' extreme fear of spiders effectively establishes the link with the audience which makes the ensuing action tenable. Jennings' fear is believeble because, thanks to Marshall's careful direction, the character himself is so wholely believeable...