Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when Bombeck is persuaded to talk about herself. "My life story?" she says. "Fifteen minutes top. You're looking at shallow. I'm just not that deep. You're looking at a bundle of insecurity. I always think that everything good is going to evaporate and disappear overnight. I am the quietest person at the party. I position myself at the chip dip and don't leave all night. I still have a very ordinary, simple person trapped in this rich, gorgeous, successful body." The joke is practiced and sure, but she does not want...
...featuring characters as diverse as political policemen, murdered priests and pregnant teenagers, explore exotic territory that is made immediate and familiar by his graceful narrative gifts and by the fleet, conversational translations of the lyrics that he provides on the album's inner cover ("Where do people who disappear go to? Look in the water and in the high grass . . . When do they return? Every time our thoughts bring them back...
Physicians have long known that if a patient is assured that he will recover and is treated with sympathy, his pain will often disappear. In the same way, a simple sugar pill, or placebo, prescribed in place of drugs, can have a curative effect. In fact, before the 20th century, when doctors relied on bleedings and all sorts of dubious nostrums, most of medicine was a type of placebo (Latin for "I will please...
...Center in Fort Gordon, Ga., has found that the pain, which afflicts about 80% of amputees at one time or another, is sometimes due to muscle spasms in the stump. When Sherman teaches patients to relax the affected muscles through biofeedback training, the sensations in the phantom limb usually disappear...
...have tried to democratize Harvard University. The arrogance of Harvard's Administration was matched only by our own narrowmindedness about what we disdainfully labeled Student Power. We recognized that institutions die when no movement supports them, but we did not realize that movements that produce no institutions disappear...