Word: brush
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...brush with death is actually a reincarnation of a theme that Hollywood revisits from time to time. The 1978 hit Heaven Can Wait was a remake of the 1941 film Here Comes Mr. Jordan. In the '50s, Topper and the Kerbys explored the hereafter on TV. More recently, Field of Dreams cloaked the metaphysical in a baseball motif. In fact, the netherworld as a dramatic device is as old as theater. Anthony Minghella, writer and director of Truly, Madly, Deeply, a British variation of carpe diem, hails the technique as an inventive way to deal with loss and pain: "However...
...decidedly unaccustomed role for IBM. Other companies have to do it all the time, of course, but the Colossus of Armonk (N.Y.) is different. Overwhelmingly dominant in its industry for decades, IBM is used to swatting aside small rivals -- and they're all small by comparison -- with a brush of its hand. Now things have changed...
...might imagine, these TV-haters don't watch much TV. As a result, they were often wrong in their broad-brush assertions about TV. Night-line did examine the damage war can do to the environment. Other network programs ran similar stories. And obviously, war coverage was not "all military strategy...
Most, however, continued to the hills. Somewhere between Turkey and Iraq, the mountains are providing shelter for farmer-poet Mohammed Said and his wife and children. A few weeks ago, during the brief brush with freedom, he had allowed a display of ethnic pride: "I am the rose of Eden, I am the flame that lights the Kurdish darkness, I am the offspring of the Mittani, the Kassites, the Hurrians and the Medes. I am cousin to Alexander the Great, and the juice of the pomegranate drips from my lips like wine." Finally, he said, the suffering of his people...
...provide clever techniques to help people adjust to life without a cigarette dangling from their mouth. Smokenders, based in Connecticut, explains that a person puffs about 10 times for every cigarette smoked, or 200 times a day for every pack. With this in mind, the group teaches people to brush and floss after each meal in order to "give mouths plenty of that attention they're missing," says seminar director Charlotte Tausz. She also suggests "ways of engaging in noncaloric pucker responses" like sipping water through a straw or sucking on ginger root and cinnamon sticks...