Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the transplant experts tackled the rejection problem, they quickly agreed that all early drugs designed to suppress the body's immune reaction to foreign protein were bad. Since they blocked off the production of disease-fighting antibodies indiscriminately, said London's Sir Peter Medawar, they left the transplant patient easy prey to infectious crises caused by the commonest microbes that healthy people carry around all the time...
...help doctors raise their prescription skills, the Lee committee recommended federal financial support for expanded teaching about drugs in medical schools. It also proposed publication of a national drug compendium in which all lawfully available drugs would be listed, along with their effects, both good and bad. And it advocated compilation of "objective guidelines" to help doctors tailor their prescriptions to the patient's needs...
...story deals with a young Hollywood talent agent (Peter Kastner) who is mad for an English starlet. He works his way to London as a bewigged model and becomes the hottest mannequin since Twiggy. Kastner admits that at first he feared the show "might be offensive and in bad taste." After screening the pilot, he became convinced that it is merely "silly...
...often been accused of lacking the 'killer instinct,' " says Ashe. "I suppose it used to be true. When things were going bad, I'd say to myself, 'What am I doing here?' " And then he would falter. In 1963, he won the U.S. Men's Hard Court championship, but was beaten in the third round at Wimbledon. In 1965 he led the U.S. Davis Cup team to a 3-2 victory over Mexico, only to be benched during the interzone finals against Spain on the grounds that his play on clay was lackluster...
Last week the first recording of the concerto was issued on the Melodyia Angel label. The music should prove as much of a surprise to Shostakovich's fans as to his critics. Gone are the characteristic hard-edged rhythms, brittle orchestral sounds and prankish grotesqueries. Instead, the bad boy of Russian music seems to have found a new mood of lyrical quiet and contentment. His artistic debt to Sergei Prokofiev is as clear as ever-embarrassingly so at times-and some of his melodic writing in the first movement is downright dull. But the elegiac sweep of the middle...