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...they wrote them! With varying literary distinction, indeed with all the ornamental vices of the time, yet often with attractive energy and at copious length, they wrote to each other monthly, weekly, sometimes daily, for nearly 20 years. What was more unusual, the Jones family saved the letters, all 6,000 of them, 4,000,000 words or more. English Professor Robert Manson Myers selected 1,200, made minor cuts, and knitted the skeins of reply and re-reply into an almost continuous narrative, mostly without intext notes or bridges. Then, in 17 years of fanatic industry, he added...
...Metaphysics aside, just how dirty is money? Filthy indeed, according to a report by two doctors at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Writing in the A.M.A. Journal, Drs. Berel Abrams and Norton Waterman report that money carries copious quantities of potentially harmful bacteria. They base their conclusion on analysis of 150 coins worth $13.47 and 50 bills totaling $150. The coins were relatively clean; only 13.3% yielded common bacteria like Staphylococcus. But 42% of the bills carried that type as well as Escherichia coli. To avoid contamination by cash, the Louisville researchers suggest that people...
Calling for better research and prescription controls the Medical Letter advises: "Cough is a protective reflex; its severity should be diminished, but when there are copious secretions, it should not be suppressed by large doses of an antitussive agent." In most cases, the best remedy is an old-fashioned regimen of warm drinks and steam inhalation. Beyond that, "the familiar throat-tickling irritation can often be relieved by a candy drop...
...David's 1812 portrait of the hero, struck them as literary but in the wrong way: not philosophical enough, unconcerned (unlike Johns and Rauschenberg) with the semantics and sign structure of art. The new celebrity artist was the cool and silent Andy Warhol, not the hot and copious Rivers. Any artist who is as unabashedly a romantic as Rivers, and puts his lifestyle so much on the line, becomes an open target. The tendency has been to look at Rivers' self-indulgence, not his commitments...
...show is a copious delight, but it has a sizable temperamental flaw. No strict decision was made as to whether it should be played straight or campy, and the latter apparently won out as the lesser commercial risk. Camp is low-level satire, and it tends to destroy both the past and the present with a snicker. Far from being a "great creative sensibility," as acclaimed by Susan Sontag, camp is anti-sensibility. Its intrinsic nature is sterile, and it applies the tactic of reductio ad absurdum to imply that all cultural values are equally sterile. Thus at one moment...