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...only a few months before she died of Addison's disease at the age of 42, Jane Austen managed to start a new novel but had to break off after 26,000 words. The result was a fragment that would tantalize posterity. Though it jangled with a bumptious satire reminiscent of Austen's youthful burlesques, it seemed to project something both ambitious and new. When it was finally published in 1925 under the title Sanditon-named for the seaside resort town of its setting-E.M. Forster saluted the prescient way the book portrayed nature as "a geographic...
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Action returned to normal through the next three weights. Sophomores Stewart Sundlun, Daniel White, and John Addison routed their competition. Sundlun earned a pin, while White and Addison garnered lopsided point totals at 152, 160, and 177 lbs., respectively...
There's moderate but bouncy rhythm in the cutting throughout much of the film, emphasized by appropriate and cleverly orchestrated themes by John Addison, that reaches a jaunty high when Caine, who is able throughout, is disguised in a clown costume and about to break into the house. Caine actually becomes a clown as he makes his way across the croquet field, dodging the wickets but falling nevertheless, and making subtler visual jokes with the sticky putty in his collections of burgler tools...
...thyroid glands of cattle, a development of importance to patients whose growth had been stunted by hormonal deficiencies. In 1930 he began research into the secretions of the adrenal cortex, and during eight years isolated six hormones, including cortisone, a substance effective in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, Addison's disease and other ailments...