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...quality at its root, though the explosions literature releases have a delayed-action effect...How long did it take the European Enlightenment from Montaigne to Voltaire, Diderot, Kant, Lessing and Lichtenberg to introduce a flicker of reason into the dark corners of scholasticism?...But when the light finally did brighten things up, it turned out to be the light of cold reason, limited to the technically doable, to economic and social progress, a reason that claimed to be enlightened but that merely drummed a reason-based jargon (which amounted to instructions for progress at all costs...
Cosmetic lasers can now zap away everything from bikini hair and tattoos to spider veins and liver spots. They can eliminate crow's-feet around the eyes and fine lines around the mouth. Dentists even use lasers to brighten teeth. A projected 3.4 million aesthetic laser procedures will be performed next year, up from an estimated 1 million in 1996. And baby boomers brought up to admire the Bain de Soleil tan will doubtless be turning even more to lasers, as the years go on, to try to reverse the damaging effects of sun. "What we're facing in American...
...escape the city that is suddenly distasteful to him. A recent widower, he misreads his young lunch date's interest, and within an hour he is mentally married to a woman he had previously hardly remembered. This would be the perfect antidote to his distressing solitude: "she could brighten my life, he thinks, and lighten my home, all those rooms with their splendid views that seem to have darkened," and he wonders about what redecoration schemes she will choose. She is engaged, however, and Dr. Zamora's visions crumble. In his ensuing despondent mood, he finally faces long-ignored memories...
...escape the city that is suddenly distasteful to him. A recent widower, he misreads his young lunch date's interest, and within an hour he is mentally married to a woman he had previously hardly remembered. This would be the perfect antidote to his distressing solitude: "she could brighten my life, he thinks, and lighten my home, all those rooms with their splendid views that seem to have darkened," and he wonders about what redecoration schemes she will choose. She is engaged, however, and Dr. Zamora's visions crumble. In his ensuing despondent mood, he finally faces long-ignored memories...
...Toscanini's: The `it' coffee. Colorful containers brighten a blah outfit...