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After learning that placebos can range from inert pills to actual doctors, after discovering the distinctions between "disease" and "illness," "healing" and "curing," one can venture into the last half of the collection, where a veritable alphabet soup of terms lurk and psychosomatic explorations abound. Abandon all hope, ye who wrestled with the QRR and plan to enter here: inverse relations and normalized sets of data concerning placebo efficacy literally pepper the pages. Authors Donald D. Price and Howard L. Fields even include an exponential function describing the placebo effect (Feeling intensity = Desire x Expectation...
...Faulkner-McCullers territory and makes it her own. There are a few visual and character cliches, and we wish that, just once in movies, a fortune teller's dire prophecy would not automatically come true. But the folks here believe in its power, and they compel the viewer to abandon skepticism, to hide with Eve in the Batiste closet, where skeletons whisper vengeance...
...amply-repertoired Pollini, who has recorded both Mozart and Stockhausen for Deutsche Grammophon. His technique was particularly well-suited to the fierce leaps and skips of the third prelude, "The Wind of the Plain." It was equally fun to watch him grab fistfuls of notes with such glorious abandon in "The Hills of Anacapri," the ending of which seemed contrived by Debussy to recall the final arpeggio of the earlier "Gardens in the Rain" from his "Estampes." Pollini's mastery of Lisztian technique was evident in the whirling "What the West Wind Saw," and his refined yet poetic sensitivity...
This mingling of doubt and confidence persists as the exhibition progresses. We find a certain stylistic assurance within each painting, but not among the works as a whole. It's almost as if Picasso tries on a style and buys it completely until he finishes a painting only to abandon or modify that style before moving on to the next canvas. The show's label text aptly points to possible influences which include artists such as Monet, Munch, Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin, Cezanne and even Velasquez...
...aluminum conduits, which become less conductive as they shrink. IBM had been working patiently on the problem since scientists realized a decade ago that to move to the next level of miniaturization (to wiring .25 microns wide, about 400 times thinner than a human hair), they would need to abandon aluminum...