Word: boiling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...medication," recalls Dr. Joe Jacobs, summoning up a scene from his days at the Indian Medical Center in Gallup, New Mexico. "She'd be accompanied by the grandmother in traditional hoop skirt, who kept silent." After examining the child, Jacobs would offer his prescription for soothing inflamed nasal passages: boil some sage leaves in water and have the youngster inhale the aromatic fumes. "When she'd hear that, the young mother invariably would give the grandmother a sheepish smile. It was just what the older woman had been urging her to do, and they'd been arguing about...
Some days we draw rice. Most days we draw blanks. Other days ideas just boil over in our brains during lecture, as molecular orbital theory and all that other chem crap is left far behind as new storylines spew forth as doodles onto notebook paper. Our conversations start to pattern themselves after the set-up and punchline rhthym of the strip. We often fight over the direction things should take, and have nasty things to say about each other...
Anna Christie has just that simmer and boil. A waterfront fable about a Swedish whore with a heart of gold, this 1921 sea wheeze contains a corrosive third-act face-off that helped O'Neill win the second of his four Pulitzer Prizes. Yet the play was criticized so widely for its optimistic ending -- unthinkable in high drama, where everyone must suffer, especially the audience -- that O'Neill felt obliged to declare he was misunderstood. In fact, he had been found out: without the scaffolding of tragedy, his stagecraft was exposed as ramshackle, his creatures as puppets. Though producers drag...
...born hungry. His parents were Tartar peasants from Ufa, in Bashkir near the Ural Mountains. "Our Tartar blood runs faster," he wrote later, "always ready to boil." Especially during World War II his parents and three sisters and he faced extreme privation, living in one room with two other families. From age six, when he saw his first dance performance, he was obsessed by movement. His father hoped his bright son would become a doctor or an engineer...
...Israeli authorities are aware of that eventuality. Says a senior military official: "We can keep a lid on the territories by applying pressure, but they will boil over again once we lift the lid. The solution is to deal with the fire underneath, through political means." Given the ferocity of the fundamentalist challenge, it is a fire best extinguished quickly, before it spreads further...