Word: acidizing
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...recent years the proliferation of "raunch radio" personalities like Howard Stern, the acid-tongued New York disk jockey, has raised a public outcry over broadcast vulgarity. Last April the FCC responded by altering its definition of what constitutes indecent programming. Under the old guidelines a program was deemed indecent only if it used one or more of the "seven dirty words" made famous in a comedy routine by George Carlin. The new ruling broadened the standard to include anything that depicts sexual or excretory activity in terms that are "patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast...
...clinical neuroscience branch at the National Institute of Mental Health, is studying how ethanol affects certain cells in the brain to induce sedative effects. He is looking at a group of receptors, sites on the membranes of brain cells, that link with a molecule called gamma- aminobutyric acid (GABA), a neurotransmitter that moves across the synapses between neurons. GABA homes in on a complex known as the GABA-benzodiazepine receptor. If there are a sufficient number of GABA molecules present in certain areas of the brain, anxiety diminishes. Tranquilizers such as Valium and Librium work by attaching themselves...
...moment, Wright's position in Washington is saturated with acid. Since he became Speaker a year ago, he has unwisely poured out his contempt for Ronald Reagan in dozens of not-so-private gatherings around town. Wright has called the President a "liar" and worse. White House aides, no strangers to bile, whispered again last week, "Jim Wright is a mean-spirited snake-oil salesman, and nobody wants to deal with him." On the Nicaraguan flap, Wright and Secretary of State George Shultz grandly staged their own truce negotiations, but that hardly dispels what one Congressman calls a "reservoir...
...through 21 pages of single-spaced questions. Was your wife pregnant when you married? No. Have you ever visited a massage parlor? No. Have you seen other women since you were married? No. Have you ever participated in group sex? No. Have you ever used cocaine? No. Hashish? No. Acid? No. Marijuana? No. Heroin? No. Have you ever bought pornography? Yes. His startled questioners were silent. "I bought several hard-core books and magazines for use in my constitutional-law class," Kennedy explained. Everyone laughed...
...Madame Butterfly, would he like to come? -- then to his home. She reveals she is pregnant with his child; he renounces her. He arrives home one evening to find Alex chatting airily with Beth about purchasing their apartment now that they are moving to the country. She pours acid on his car hood, and still he cannot confide in Beth. Fretting at his living-room desk one night, he glances up at Beth reading a fairy tale to Ellen. He still believes in his picture-pretty life. To tell Beth about Alex would be to deface the greeting card...