Word: breaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SOME SHOWINGS of Nashville bands of people squirm in their seats, flamboyantly discontented--sharp out-takes of impatient breath, exclamations of disgust, even boos at the end of the show. It had to come to this: it should have been obvious from the beginning that the colossal build up for Nashville would alienate people, and not just because certain aficionados consider it the height of sophistication and the mark of a properly iconoclastic sensibility to reject on principle whatever happens to be snared by the cover of Newsweek or Time...
...more; during the past twelve months, average weekly wage rates for manual workers rose 32.6%, leapfrogging ahead of the 25% inflation rate for the same period. Last week, after inflation had worsened and the pound sterling had hit a new low, Wilson and his Cabinet took a deep breath and finally scrapped the tattered social contract. Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey announced that beginning with the September round of pay negotiations no wage increases above 10% will be allowed...
...Breath. These studies are backed up by animal research, which shows that ethanol, the intoxicating ingredient in liquor, is capable of causing birth defects in chicks and rats. Studies of the fetuses of alcoholic mothers also reveal that ethanol easily crosses the placenta from mother to child. Smith reports that the amniotic fluid that had surrounded one of the babies he examined had a definite odor of ethanol. A second baby born to an alcoholic mother emerged from the womb with the smell of ethanol on his breath. A third was in even worse shape. At birth, his blood contained...
...place in this show, where most of the acting (and most everything else) is subordinated to the singing and dancing. And that's as it should be. This is the kind of show you walk out of furtively trying to execute a two-step and humming under your breath, "Do, do, do what you've done, done, done before, baby...Do, do, do what I do, do, do adore baby." You may get a few stares, but anyone who has ever fallen under the spell of a twenties musical will understand where your head...
...reminded that "the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked," assured by anthropologists that Homo sapiens is descended from a killer ape, shocked by recent accounts of a primitive Ugandan culture based on sadism (TIME, Nov. 20, 1972), modern man is inclined to sniff suspiciously at any breath of air from the morning of the world. But this air is genuine and fresh...