Word: biles
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...perplexing researchers since 1769, when French Chemist Poulletier de la Salle first purified the soapy-looking yellow-white substance. Despite its bad reputation, cholesterol is essential to life: it is a building block of the outer membrane of cells, and it is a principal ingredient in the digestive juice bile, in the fatty sheath that insulates nerves, and in sex hormones such as estrogen and androgen. Although most of the cholesterol found in the body is produced in the liver, 20% to 30% generally comes from the food...
HOSPITALIZED. Frank Church, 59, four-term Democratic Senator (1957-80) from Idaho who chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and ran for the presidential nomination in 1976; for a biopsy of a tumor in his pancreas and clearance of a bile duct; at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Church overcame testicular cancer while at Stanford Law School in the 1940s...
DIED. Luis Buñuel, 83, Spanish film maker considered one of the cinema's greatest artists; of bile duct disease; in Mexico City. Son of wealthy, religious parents, Buñuel and his friend Salvador Dali transfigured their fantasies in 1929 into one of the first surrealist films, Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog), a work of bizarre images including a man slashing a woman's eyeball with a razor. In 1930, L'Age d'Or (The Golden Age), with its brutal attacks on Roman Catholicism and bourgeois morality, established the ideological foundation for most...
...dilemma: 30 years after deserting you, Dad shows up on your stoop with six months to live and $687,000 in cash to buy his way back into your affections. This latest in Neil Simon's fantasies of generation-gap bridgework runs mainly on charm, not on the bile and bathos that fueled Only When I Laugh and I Ought to Be in Pictures. Jason Robards, the errant father, is as resourcefully genial as a Damon Runyon Santa Claus; Donald Sutherland keeps his dimples flexed playing a policeman who demonstrates his love of literature by misquoting the opening line...
Musing on these fulminations, Washington Post Columnist Haynes Johnson concluded that right-wingers "are very different from you and me. They have more bile." It may also be that liberals, centrists and conservatives are more accustomed to accommodating, to doing things together, while the radical right is a crowd of spiky individualists. But any definition of the press has to be wide enough to include them too, and others who live by their own rules