Word: witnessing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lead him into rebellion. Roland Emmerich's film may be nothing more than lowbrow, high-cal entertainment, but with the action genre now encrusted with dubious aspirations (Alien 3, Batman Returns), it's good to get back to the bloody basics with a little style and self-satirizing wit...
Discussing her plans for the magazine -- which she reads "some of, every third or fourth issue" -- Brown says it "will be cerebral but more relevant, timely. I want it to have an edge, to be irreverent at times. And I hope to encourage wit." Brown insists, however, that the magazine's characteristic musing, whimsical streak will not disappear. "The New Yorker must always have the ruminative, the eccentric piece." How about photography, that heresy to true New Yorker believers? Yes, occasionally -- but not as illustration; and no color. (For what it is worth, before the week was out Brown...
Mental illness can wear many masks. Most are subtler than the deranged face of schizophrenia, but they can be just as paralyzing. Take the case of Dick Cavett. To many TV viewers, the talk-show host and actor seemed to have it all -- wit, charm, fame and fortune. But behind the glib facade, Cavett was falling apart. About 12 years ago, a chronic depression that had haunted him for years rose up and began undermining what he believed was his most valuable asset: his intellect. He became convinced that his brain was "broken" and that life without it was hardly...
...potent drug called an MAO inhibitor took effect. Such antidepressants cause subtle changes in the concentrations of certain neurotransmitters, the chemicals that carry electrical messages to and from nerve cells in the brain. The medication, which he still takes on a maintenance dose in conjunction with psychotherapy, worked. His wit, humor and facility for words returned, good as new. And Cavvett came away from the experience with a conviction that his disorder was, as he puts it, "absolutely chemical...
...lustrous Jennifer Dale). It makes life tough for Noah's wife (Arsinee Khanjian), a film censor. Both have jobs appraising erotic desires and pathetic dreams; both have a ruthless talent for "sorting things out, deciding what has value and what doesn't." The Adjuster has value: it finds wit and melancholy in all these warty souls...