Word: cerebrum
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...remembers. "I yelled at people. Finally I couldn't take it any more. I started to vomit, and it was as if my body were exploding and everything inside were trying to get out, including my brain." Two and a half years with a shrink put his cerebrum where it belonged, and even when Jeannie folded, he kept busy with TV pilots and movies. In the lean years that followed he still earned more than $150,000, enough, as his mother says, to allow him to be "a grand pasha" around the house...
...national health insurance, Reagan announced in Private Practice, a medical magazine, "Virtually all Americans have access to excellent medical care today." Such a rosy outlook endears Reagan to some, but a growing number of disaffected attribute both the style and content to the gathering clouds in a graying cerebrum...
...standard electroencephalogram showed an "irregularity" in KÖpcke's brain-wave pattern. Doctors then used the CAT (for "computerized axial tomography") scanner to make cross-section images of the boxer's brain and discovered, in their words, "a fairly common, apparently congenital anomaly between the cerebrum and cerebellum"-a condition that might make him particularly susceptible to injury from blows to the head. Hamburg's amateur boxing association believed it had no other choice; it banned the apparently robust KÖpcke from ever boxing again, thus making him a fighter kayoed...
...Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, something snapped and, in Pryor's words, he "went crazy." With a packed audience in front of him, he walked off the stage. What had happened was that he realized he was not Cosby, the smooth, controlled comic of the cerebrum. He was, if anyone, Lenny Bruce, the angry, violent screamer from the acid gut. Pryor changed his act, bringing it back in spirit to Peoria's black ghetto and the mean streets all over the U.S. He started to talk in the argot of the pool shark and the hustler, a language...
Consisting largely of gray matter and fissured like a lunar landscape, the cerebrum dominates the human brain, filling the dome of the skull. It also makes man what he is, for it contains the areas that control thought and consciousness, the quality that enables man to remember his past, understand the present and anticipate his future...