Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hospital. In a ward of 46 chronic female schizophrenics and mental defectives, they exposed patients to the pleasures of cigarettes, television, a choice of roommates, social events and even walks around the hospital grounds. Then they announced that, henceforth, patients would have to "buy" everything except regular meals, a bed in the least desirable room and their prescribed medicines. They could earn metal "tokens" to make purchases simply by demonstrating normal behavior. Attendants then began handing out tokens for the largest amount of useful behavior that each patient could manage at the time...
...addition to his work on black power psychology, Dr. Poussaint has also been involved in the study of the use of preventive drugs on bed-wetting children and in research on nicotine substitutes for cigarette smokers...
...spent her mornings breakfasting in bed without bothering to see her husband off; 4) was fascinated by visions of all the gifts she could get with trading stamps from the food bought for White House kitchens; 5) went on periodic economy drives during which she sent her used clothes to New York for resale under an assumed name; 6) decreed that all White House gifts be sorted for possible family use instead of automatically going to charity; and 7) suggested that at parties, unfinished drinks be refilled and passed off as fresh if they "didn't have lipstick marks...
...with his teenage girl. After dinner at 6:30, he retires to a den, where the family knows he is not to be disturbed. He reads technical material for about two hours, eases his tension by drinking a beer and smoking the one cigarette of the day, is in bed by 9:30. "If your wife isn't with this business," says Martin, "you are better...
...Guthrie's instant-hit record of last year. Penn currently is working on Little Big Man, a study of the contemporary American Indian, with Dustin Hoffman in the title role. ∙ STANLEY KUBRICK. A favorite of the French theorists, Kubrick ironically has the most difficulty fitting their procrustean bed. His films are alike only in their lapidary craftsmanship and strong visual sense. At his best, Kubrick created America's finest antiwar movie, Paths of Glory. At his worst, in Lolita, he flattened Nabokov's Krafft-Ebing satire and missed the author's parody of motel Americana...