Word: dulling
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...1970s Dr. Beverly Whipple of Rutgers University identified the female G spot, the vaginal on-switch for female arousal, and stumbled upon one of oxytocin's more potent effects: its ability to dull pain. Whipple showed that gentle pressure on the G spot raised pain thresholds by 40% and that during orgasm women could tolerate up to 110% more pain. But she could not explain the link until the advent of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Using fMRI to view the brains of easily orgasmic women as they climaxed, either with visual stimuli or by self-stimulation, Whipple found that...
MANCHESTER, N.H.—Rebecca E. Rubins ’05 spent last Wednesday like the ten preceding 15-hour days, frantically researching in dull light on even drabber furniture...
...possible for a musical to be really about something--to grapple with serious issues of race and class, childhood loss and adult guilt--and not feel like homework? That's the question raised by Caroline, or Change, the most ambitious new musical of New York City's rather dull theater season. Written by Tony Kushner (Angels in America) and partly based on his own childhood, the show is set in Louisiana in 1963 and focuses on the relationship between a black maid and the liberal Jewish family that employs her. At a time when musicals seem to be groping...
Abigail Johnson Dodge, a cookbook author who oversees cooking classes for 8-to 12-year-olds, cautions against giving kids knives that have grown dull. Instead, she suggests table knives for young children, then paring knives and, finally, the sharper tools of the trade. Parents must supervise closely, she says, and "it's important that the knife fit in their hands well." Having and handling the right implements is one of the joys of cooking. "If the tool isn't going to get the job done, it's going to be frustrating," says Dodge. "We want to turn children...
...personas. A dozen songs later, it's still hard to say exactly what Moore sounds like. Ronald Isley's standards album - Here I Am: Isley Meets Bacharach - succeeds for the very reason Stewart's and Moore's fail. Rather than fit his classic R.-and-B. voice into the dull formalism of Burt Bacharach's songs, Isley spirits away the songwriter's greatest hits to slow-jam land. On Close to You, he plays endlessly with single words like "why" and "close," seducing them until he decides they have had enough. His quasi-religious version of Raindrops Keep Falling...