Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ultimately, the dentist's principal instrument of agony, the drill, may be used less often because of a substance called Caridex 100, developed at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. Caridex, which is gradually being introduced around the country, is an amino-acid solution that dissolves tooth decay, leaving behind a clean, sturdy area that can be filled with little or no drilling. However, the method is not suitable for all cavities...
Tina Turner's first role since the Acid Queen in Tommy shouldn't frighten anyone away. As Auntie Entity, the self-styled empress of the "slimepit" Bartertown, she performs with a perfect pre-apocalyptic charm, which gives way only when she must express and contain the rage of a town whose people have only very recently lost everything they ever...
...struggling in obscurity until he was hit with the Buchanan bombardment. The combative White House communications director responded to Cuomo first in a news conference and later in a letter to the New York Times. Wrote the publicist who used to feed Vice President Spiro Agnew some of his acid lines: "I never anticipated much in the way of decency or accuracy from the commentaries of Mario Cuomo...
...band of achingly pure and silent sky, the trunk of a pine. The frame becomes a prison for a sign of traditional vastness, the 19th century view of limitless America. But look closer and the ideal landscape is fatally cankered, the America of Natty Bumppo is no more: acid rain has stripped the needles off the pine, or a sinister cloud spreads upward from a distant ground zero. Technical perfection evokes a compromised world...
...Ross chose deep purple Galanos glitter for the Academy Awards. For evening, Galanos likes a little Dynasty-style flash--and so do his customers. For daytime, he is tasteful to the point of fusty, although he uses colors more often seen in combination on the flags of developing nations: acid green, orange, black, purple. The great Galanos secret, the almost sensual connection between him and his clients, is the inside of the clothes. Seams are bound, linings finished, and zippers and buttonholes hand set in ways even the grand couture of Paris rarely attempts today...