Word: acidity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
PILLS TO PREVENT BREAST CANCER? Evening primrose oil, pressed from the flower's seeds, is rich in gamma-linolenic acid, a substance that a new study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute found inhibits a gene that causes nearly 30% of breast-cancer cases...
...NAFTA triumph and next year's campaign on health care. The week opened instead with two painful blasts from the past, one about sex, the other about money. The twin controversies prodded back to life old campaign questions about Clinton's judgment, character and trustworthiness. ''We've been having acid flashbacks,'' groaned one official. The most titillating charges, which came to light in the conservative monthly the American Spectator and in the Los Angeles Times, portrayed Clinton as a reckless, obsessive womanizer who used state troopers to arrange trysts even after the presidential election and then tried to bribe potential...
...late in the movie and don’t stick around for long. Near the film’s end, Swofford tells us, “Every war is different. Every war is the same.” The same apparently goes for war movies. Mendes cops the acid-trip flare lights of “Apocalypse Now” and the jittery artillery-flustered shots from “Saving Private Ryan.” But unlike those movies, “Jarhead” does nothing to romanticize war. It never glamorizes violence—mainly because there...
...Collective is just as quick to embrace the pop and folk tradition. “Sung Tongs” channeled a chilled, sometimes urgent songcraft (think the Beach Boys on acid) with just Avey Tare and Panda Bear appearing, only half of the group. It was only a matter of time before Geologist and Deakin would join their zoomates and throw a monkey wrench into the band’s musical progression...
...Keeley ’07, for example, rooted his project in visual realism. Keeley began by photographing recognizable images from television, like Oprah and Judge Judy. Photocopying these images onto acid tape and imposing them onto a silk screen prepared him for his final step: fixing them onto cubes representing the television screen from which they originally came...