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...keep is almost, but not quite, lethargic. Your palms rest on his shoulders, his ankles, behind his knees; then his hands do the same at the junctures of your body. You begin to feel lighter and suppler, as if you have just had a backrub or a very hot bath. But you are never passive; the forces and concentration of your breathing calm your fears. Some moments your mind is at rest like a field in summer; other moments harsh memories lodge in the kinks of your muscles. How when you were eight, you made your mother sit by your...
...couple of sous and buy it fresh. Mrs. Child and her co-author, Simone Beck, spent two years and 285 pounds of flour while working up a French bread recipe for Americans to use in their own kitchens. It takes seven hours, involves such diverse equipment as a folded bath towel, a razor, a hot brick, and dexterous fingers, but the result is so gratifying that the time spent duplicating the mind-boggling Origami dough-folding patterns required pays itself off in spades. What is more, there are few smells more sensual than a kitchen redolent of warm yeast...
Intensive Care. It all began, according to Harris, "more as a joke than anything else." After pondering the plight of hangover victims, Harris last year took over an abandoned medical laboratory next to his clinic. He installed a whirlpool bath and a steam cabinet and set up treatment rooms with such names as Heavenly Gates No. 1, Heavenly Gates No. 2, and Intensive Care. Then he hired a host of angels, or hostesses, and passed out cards. Hangover Heaven has been overcrowded ever since...
...strictly proper degree of sympathy. First, she gives the sufferer a snort of oxygen and a secret concoction. "My chemistry's right," Harris says. "The drinks just replace in the system what's been depleted by the alcohol." Then the patient steams a while, undergoes a whirlpool bath, downs a second concoction and, according to Harris, that does it. "I can cure a hangover in ten minutes," he claims, "but with the sympathy, it takes from...
Since it is generally felt that these persecutions would not be taking place today were the public opinion climate not thought to be receptive to the idea of a new Jewish blood bath, it is important that those who want to prevent it speak...