Word: hyperthyroid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years ago, Maris surpassed Ruth's record by 1.6%; McGwire catapulted the same record forward by a nearly unfathomable 14.75%. Here is what a 14.75% improvement over some other well-known marks would yield: Someone would drive in 218 runs. The mile record would be 3:11.29. Even so hyperthyroid a measure as the Dow Jones industrial average would leap ahead to the vicinity of 10,100. In a sport whose progress is characteristically Darwinian in both style and speed, McGwire not only collapsed the decades, he invented a new algebra...
Perhaps more disturbing are the psychological disturbances associated with hyperthyroidism--emotional imbalance, irritability, impatience, difficulty concentrating and fluctuating depression. In extreme cases, a hyperthyroid patient may appear schizophrenic, losing touch with reality and becoming delirious or hallucinatory. Such symptoms have led some hyperthyroid sufferers to be misdiagnosed, hospitalized for months and treated unsuccessfully for psychosis...
...books have drawn a permanent and distinctive trajectory. His obsessions usually lead back into the continuum of the 1950s and '60s, into the universe of the cold war, of media metastasis and dangerous fame, of glamorous, conspiratorial violence, of the garish existential dreads and lusts (to use the old hyperthyroid Mailer vocabulary) that it has been his gift to conjure...
...Broadway work, Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead -- the title evokes his hyperthyroid style -- is a midlife lament. It begins with a radio host musing over whether America was really better and happier in the '50s than today, or merely more self-deceiving. It ends with a middle-aged man confronting medical and moral decay. In between, it depicts rage between the accomplished and the envious, each side etched in acid. Bogosian is politically incorrect enough to play an unappetizing street black, arrogant enough to enact an egomaniacal fan and complex enough to risk a jolting tirade against...