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...implication that the Fly's decision was made with the best interests of women at heart is as offensive as it is preposterous. And the claim that women will be spared the embarrassment and discomfort that they would be sure to feel as new club members is nothing short of condescension...

Author: By Megan E. Colligan, Rebecca Ewing, and Sarah E. Winters, S | Title: Sexism Wins Another Battle | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

...recent months as Washington's Smithsonian Institution shuffled through one script after another, trying to figure out how to deal with Hiroshima in a 50th-anniversary exhibition about the end of the war and the dawn of the nuclear era. Around the Smithsonian, the task brought on profound moral discomfort -- historiographical hives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hiroshima and the Time Machine | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

Doctors say most in-flight discomfort is really dehydration, so drink water while flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIP | 7/20/1994 | See Source »

Stone plays Charles with some discomfort. Charles is a stock character, a young vagabond whose ignorance makes him vacillate between over-confident threatening statements to pathetic acts of (sincere?) sorrow. I do not know if it is with the acting or the directing, but Charles needs to be slimier. He is a con man who is trying to get money out of John while feigning gay companionship. While Stone utilizes his Pudding past and tries to play up the effeminacy of his gay character, it is not made certain until Charles threatens to leave John if he does not swindle...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Mamet's 'Shawl' Hangs Heavy in the Summer Heat | 7/8/1994 | See Source »

...organ. When that medicine no longer worked, his doctors at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh performed a second transplant in 1992 and started him on what was then an experimental treatment called FK506. Given his long experience, he was probably better prepared than most people for the pain and discomfort antirejection drugs can sometimes cause. He had already outlived most of the children he had met in the hospital while awaiting the initial transplant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sick Boy Says Enough! | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

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