Word: calvinism
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...minefield -- and a smelly minefield at that. More and more perfume manufacturers are relying on not just provocative texts and evocative images but a sample of the real thing. Turn the page, break open the "scent strip" and get a full blast of Giorgio of Beverly Hills; or Calvin Klein's Obsession; Fendi, the passion of Rome; or Faberge's McGregor. "The fragrance business is so highly competitive," says Melisande Congdon-Doyle, director of cosmetic and fragrance marketing at Harper's Bazaar, "that the only way to get the scent before the noses of people is to go to them...
This season her acolyte is Ebby Calvin ("Nuke") LaLoosh (Tim Robbins), a southpaw with a million-dollar arm and a five-cent head. Nuke is a little raw. He's meat in need of curing, and Annie sees that as her mission. So she straps him into her bed and reads passages from I Sing the Body Electric. You remember Walt Whitman; according to Annie, he pitched for the Cosmic All- Stars. And his dithyrambs, invoking "limitless limpid jets of love," could be in praise of a fastball pitcher whose arm doesn't turn to overcooked pasta...
...Calvin Kantor, a Black aide to Paolillo, declined to comment on the incident yesterday. Kantor was quoted by the Chronicle as saying that he "wasn't offended" by the joke, and "in my heart I know Tony Paolillo is not a racist...
...miracle of cyclosporine comes at a steep price. The drug can cause severe damage to the kidneys as well as allow cancerous tumors to develop. Moreover, cyclosporine costs as much as $6,000 for a year's supply, and patients may need it for life. Still, declares Calvin Stiller, chief of transplantation at University Hospital in London, Ont., "cyclosporine clearly stands out as the most important medical discovery in transplantation. It changed the field...
...righthanded reliever, who was acquired in December from the Chicago Cubs for pitchers Calvin Schiraldi and Al Nipper, did not give up another hit the rest of the way. Smith struck out three batters on the way to earning his third save of the season...