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...People enjoy these seminars because they can hear authors discuss their feelings, what causes them to write." Or as Novelist Anne Bernays (The Address Book), who came from Boston to speak at lunch, said, "People think if they can touch and talk to an author, they will absorb the magic, be able to do it themselves. That's why they always ask technical questions like 'Do you use a pencil...
...later use, heat picked up in the building's inner recesses is directed to 5 two cooling towers on the roof, which dissipate the heat into the atmosphere. In all seasons, the building gets a boost from rooftop solar collectors, which are arrays of black-painted pipes that absorb the energy of the sun's rays and provide most of the building's hot water for washrooms...
EACH IMAGE WARNER uses is cleverly conceived. Yet their incredible number makes difficult for the audience to absorb their opinion significant. All of the following appear at some point on the at some point on the two-levelled stage, shopping carts rifles, Mickey Mouse masks, a bathtub, a television, Twinkies, a refrigerator filled with McDonald's food and beer, walkie-talkie, larger than-life-sized photo stills, a microphone, a campers, a bare lightbulb, a Brown Bruins hat, a piano, a vacuum cleaner, a coffin and--last but not least--water guns. The costumes, which range from the several green...
...later, Leo--after weeks of puppy-eyed stares at Phoebe --confesses he has written a feature story about her simply in order to see her. She stares at him--"Why!" -another blank "Because I want to marry you." Silence, more stares. "It'll take me a little while to absorb that." A long, lugubrious stare: "Absorbed it yet?" Etcetera, etcetera, ad nauseum...
...will be assigned to one of 467 newly de fined "diagnosis-related groups," or DRGs, home on the nature of their jeopardizing Each DRG carries a specific rate of reimbursement. If the hospital treats the patient for less, it can keep the profit; if it charges more, it must absorb the loss...