Word: bleaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...them are small and poorly funded. In San Francisco, Vicente ("Chente") Matus, an ex-addict who now works for Midcity Consortium to Combat AIDS, ambles along the rough-and-tumble streets of the city's Mission District, his white plastic bag bursting with 1-oz. bottles of household bleach and packets of condoms. His message to IV addicts is blunt and simple: Don't share needles, but if you have to, clean the "works" twice with bleach, a procedure that reduces the risk of exposure to the virus. While the rate of new infection among the city's mostly white...
...nostalgia surrounding Rogers-Astaire tends to bleach out other partners. But if Rita Hayworth, Cyd Charisse and Lucille Bremer melted more quickly into his arms, they did so with unsurpassed lyricism. Indeed, it is with Charisse during the Dancing in the Dark sequence of The Band Wagon that he attained romantic apotheosis. That film brought him to another kind of culmination. He always liked to shed his top hat, white tie and tails and make magic with homely props -- a golf club, a hat rack, a handful of firecrackers. In Band Wagon, glum and lonesome, he entered an amusement arcade...
...rooms, parking lots and nearby taverns if necessary." On the other side of the field, a group of San Diego civil libertarians who call themselves Question Authority have put together a three-minute telephone tape offering advice on how to disguise drug traces in urine. "Two large tablespoons of bleach (poured into a urine sample) will help beat the test," a woman tells callers. "Remember . . . you've got the Constitution on your side...
...intensity of the fall's light begins to bleach out the chlorophyll--the chemical that turns leaves green--and unmasks a companion chemical contained in every leaf. That companion chemical, carotene, is what turns carrots orange and leaves yellow, according to John W. Einset, an associate professor of biology who works at the Arnold Arboretum. The yellow trees that dominate Vermont's fall landscape are ashes, sassafrases (members of the laurel family), hickories and maples. But, for the most part, you see the distinctive maple scattered all over Vermont...
...unsettled. In bed with David, she wants to be a boy. She then persuades her husband to join her in getting matching short haircuts and a platinum-blond dye job. (Hemingway fans may recall that the Catherine of A Farewell to Arms also suggests twin coiffures but without the bleach.) Eventually, Catherine comes out of the closet on the arm of the dark, lovely and rich Marita...