Screen frozen on mac mini--help please!

Updated "Pages" and screen froze. Did a hard restart and, yet, the spoked wheel is still. Triple-checked.
Is there some sort of "restart and hold down the keys" solution? Thanks!

Hi, restart it by powering down first.
Bootup holding CMD+r, or the Option/alt key to boot from the Restore partition & use Disk Utility from there to Repair the Disk, then Repair Permissions.
If that doesn't help Reinstall the OS.

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