Word: breaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alice in Wonderland. A breath-stopping descent into the quirky labyrinth of the human psyche...
...through the voice of the press release. (PR, you may remember, was even invented by an American, Cambridge's own Edward Bernays.) So when Wolfe takes off on his great tirades of trade names and trivia, the neon flashing in his eyes, the fury of apocalypse heavy on his breath, he becomes our twentieth-century Walt Whitman singing America's new bod ELECTRIC...
...Congress gave the FDA a mandate to pass on both the safety and effectiveness of all new drugs before licensing them. Druggists' shelves then were crammed with almost 3,000 previously approved preparations. Some were gimmicky solutions supposed to sweeten the breath or whiten teeth, but others contained valuable medications. Some were made by obscure little companies, but many were produced by distinguished firms...
...grass swarms with life, the earth is alive and stirs beneath me, everything rings in one chord, then the soul rejoices and flies in the immeasurable space around me. There is no up and down any more, no beginning and no end, I hear and feel the living breath of God . . ." Dr. Leary? Alan Watts? No; it was thus, in 1802, that a 25-year- old painter named Philipp Otto Runge set down his ecstatic nature worship in a letter to his elder brother. It may be that Runge had what most of us have lostthe power...
...philosopher. He catches perfectly the queerness of the scene when he does reach the Bastille: "The fortress is being looted. From the high towers precious documents float down into the moat." He records the rainy grayness of Paris and the strange periods of calm when the Revolution catches its breath ("Most people lost interest . . . The price of bread continued to rise"). He sees the city's whores applaud a lynching "with their white hands, so expert at stimulating desire." He tries to turn his eyes away when a laughing mob drags a headless corpse from the Hotel de Ville...