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...hero's instant amnesia as "a loss of memory, with plot complications." Skinner, before singing "The Lorelei" (she does it in Madeline Kahn's Teutonic-twat accent from "Blazing Saddles"), tells the audience, "Here's a little number that Wagner cut from 'Das Rheingold'." Bartlett, suddenly in a Russian mood, murmurs, "Dosvedanya. Dostoevsky. Vo do dee oh do." Later he storms, "You know I don't allow double entendres in my house. Single entendres are all I can afford." At the end, the plot is dutifully wrapped up, sort of. As Skinner says, "That explains everything. Well, not everything...
Without the high expectations of one year ago, a lighter mood set in that added to an already strong team unity...
According to a motion for pre-trial probation filed by Hunt’s attorney in January 2001, Hunt was at the time suffering from and being treated for diagnoses of schizoaffective disorder and secondary post traumatic stress disorder. The first is characterized by severe mood swings and depression mixed with schizophrenia-like symptoms. The second refers to mental illness brought on by interactions with or the witnessing of others who experienced great trauma. It is often associated with the horrors of war or abuse...
...just the torture photos but also the Saddamite general riding proudly into Fallujah and, of course, the beheading of Nicholas Berg. This is, literally, the stuff of nightmares; it is difficult to assimilate emotionally. And neither the President nor John Kerry seems able to acknowledge the souring American mood...
...easy fix. "Our remedies are very middle class," says Adam Drewnowski, director of the Center for Public Health Nutrition at the University of Washington. "They tell you, Seek a healthy diet and exercise. Well, if you're working two jobs and living in a trailer, you're in no mood to get home and make a salad." In the end, fitness may have less to do with genetics than with tax brackets. --By Lisa Takeuchi Cullen