Word: braine
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...editors, John Simpson and Edmund Weiner, note that the generating ferment in English has shifted from the literary world toward those of science, business, medicine and North American slang. In fact, a partial listing of what the language has been up to lately is enough to inspire depression: brain-dead, nose job, right-to-die, acid rain, crack, heat-seeker, asset stripping, greenmail, petro-currency, barf, drunk tank. There is not much here that would inspire Keats to write...
...most widespread chemical danger in water is lead, which can cause high blood pressure, arm and leg pains, nausea and vomiting. Lead is especially hazardous to children, since it impairs the development of brain cells. The EPA estimates that at least 42 million Americans are exposed to unacceptably high levels of lead, and the U.S. Public Health Service says that perhaps 9 million children are at least slightly affected...
...After a brain-numbing campaign which raises few important issues, less than half of the students elect the 88 council representatives. Council members then spend the rest of the year wondering if they are a legitimateenough body to represent students on anything more weighty than setting up concerts or serving milk and cookies...
JANE'S ADDICTION: JANE'S ADDICTION (Warner Bros.). This will dice your eardrums and deep-fry your brain in the bargain. Assaultive, tough, unsparing rock from a Los Angeles band with a punk foundation and guitars like trip- hammers...
...musical respectability. "When the keyboard is used for gimmicks and effect, the status, the art and the tonality are lost," says Paul Ellison, chairman of the string department at the U.S.C. School of Music. "It's not coming from the soul of the artist, it's coming from the brain." Indeed, there are lots of switches and buttons to get used to, even on simpler keyboards...