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...white sheet used to show the slides before each of the play's nine scenes only distracts from the action in front. If, however, the bedsheet serves a vital symbolic purpose for Wingrove's vision of modern love and commitment, then he fails to show us what...
...first half of this century the most expensive yachts ever built, the majestic J boats, were used, but economy forced the switch to the current 12-meter boats in the 1950s. If the Australian syndicate wanted to switch to Sunfish, rafts with bedsheet sails, or Spanish galleons, they could. Switching the Cup to a board sailing, wave-jumping competition would do much to bring Cup racing within the grasp of everyone who ever said "I think I could do that...
...preoccupied with the fear of having a serious disease. Some doctors refer to the treatment of hypochondriacs, or "crocks," as "psychoceramic medicine" and the recitation of their histories as "organ recitals." Other somatizers sometimes deliberately fake illness, going so far, for example, as to rub a thermometer on a bedsheet to produce a fever, lacerate the skin to create lesions, or overuse laxatives to disrupt the gastrointestinal tract. In the bizarre Munchausen syndrome, which, according to one estimate, affects 4,000 U.S. patients, ailments are feigned so that the individual can enter the hospital. One man was so skillful...
Though New York Owner George Steinbrenner and Oakland Manager Billy Martin flapped at the umpires and each other every now and then, that was nothing compared with the flapping in the wives' section of Yankee Stadium. There Ginger Nettles and the seasoned wives' corps whipped bedsheet banners around in a whirlwind. PLAN A ALL THE WAY, read one, referring to the first of the Steinbrenner A, B, C "scenarios." Under Plan A, most of the team would return next year; under Plans B and C, varying numbers of players would be jettisoned to make way for new talent...
...sheets. "Don't jump! Don't jump!" policemen yelled through bullhorns. A helicopter swooped around the hotel announcing over a loudspeaker in English and Spanish that the fire was under control. Despite the warnings, at least one woman was killed when she tried to climb down a bedsheet rope from the 19th floor, made it to the 17th, and then fell...