Word: cancerously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also been stymied in banning another substance given to animals to boost growth: the hormone DES (diethylstilbesterol), which is known to cause cancer in humans...
...largely right," he concludes. "He is a bluff, sweet man with pronounced opinions that he doesn't hesitate to utter." Unfortunately for the house guest, one of Adams' strongest views concerns tobacco, and his home is papered with signs reading, "Thank you for not smoking. The American Cancer Society." Says Hughes: "Blistering rows occur if he smells smoke, so I would disappear into the garden, ostensibly to contemplate nature, but in fact to sneak a cigarette and bury the butt under a shrub." As a veteran connoisseur of art, architecture and antiquity, Hughes learned long ago to treat...
DIED. Kenneth Lamott, 56, novelist, social and literary critic known for his acerbic comments on California, the backdrop for much of his writing and subject of his essays in Anti-California: Report from Our First Parafascist State (1971); of cancer; in Bolinas, Calif...
DIED. Julio de Diego, 79, Spanish-born artist whose vivid paintings of sinister battle scenes and mechanistic landscapes are in the collections of major museums; of cancer; in Sarasota, Fla. Diego left home at 15 to apply his brushes to everything from inn signs to stage sets. In 1924 he emigrated to the U.S. and worked as a fashion illustrator before achieving success as a muralist. For seven years Diego was married to Burlesque Queen Gypsy Rose...
...city dies, and Richie faces a similar fate at the hands of King Kong. Flynn is saved temporarily because of a minor Mafia dispute. A more permanent salvation is offered by the FBI and an ambitious new special prosecutor, Hamilton Wainwright IV, who has vowed to rip out the "cancer" of organized crime. They want Richie to sing...