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...continue to keep playing until the father wins. Meechum shoves his wife to the ground and kicks his other children away when they protest that his son has beaten him fair and square. The situation defuses quietly after the initial heat--but the incident rips wide open a blister in the family that has festered since Bull Meechum's return, sowing the seeds of hatred that will later torment the characters with guilt...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: What Santini? | 9/16/1980 | See Source »

Even the Chancellor's closest supporters admit he has a vanity and impatience that can blister into arrogance. In his clockwork Cabinet meetings, he thinks nothing of cutting off the first digression with a knifing "That's not pertinent!" He once complained about Ludwig Erhard, who succeeded Adenauer as Chancellor, that "talking with him is like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leading from Strength | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

...group you think we're stinking rich/ 'N' we all got model girls shedding every stitch") and its permanence ("I'll get out my money and make a bet/ That I'll be seeing you down the launderette"). A fever-blister rocker called Safe European Home concerns the lads' attempts to seek out some brothers in Jamaica, where "every white face is an invitation to robbery" and "Natty Dread drinks at the Sheraton Hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Best Gang in Town | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...ankle to lower leg, knee, upper leg, hip and lower back. Ill effects are legion. Every runner sooner or later is likely to suffer from a sprained or twisted ankle, knee inflammation, stress fracture of the leg bone, shin splints, hamstring pulls, low-back pain, heel pain or blood blister of the toes. Says Berson: "Our ancestors evolved by running barefoot across a grassy plain to escape saber-toothed tigers. The human leg is not designed for running long distances on cement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Woes of the Weekend Jock | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

...problem is that lasers produce beams of light so intense that if directed or even reflected into the human eye, they can blister and burn the retina, causing instant and permanent damage. To avoid that possibility, the FDA wants light-show operators to use low-powered lasers and to design the shows so that the beams of light are aimed far above the heads of spectators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAPSULES: EYING LASER LIGHT | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

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