Word: earlied
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...spherical pneumococcus bacteria have proved a stubborn foe. They are showing increasing resistance to drugs of all kinds, and bacterial pneumonia is again on the rise; it takes an estimated 25,000 lives a year in the U.S. alone. The bacteria are also a common cause of damaging middle-ear infections in youngsters and meningitis?a dangerous inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord...
...none other than Joe "He-who-multiflexes-first-multiflexes-best" Restic. He had done some multiflex soul-searching on Sunday, and decided that he was in need of a friendly ear. Having been told that I occasionally like to multiflex myself, he was now--in a move some would term as desperate--seeking my advice. Our conversation multiflexed something like this...
...media get interested, and there is an opportunity to make the customary comments on the circus aspects of overnight celebrity. But Reiner makes the point lightly. Heavy preachment is just not his style. The result is a movie that tugs at your arm instead of blasting in your ear. Oh, God! is a nice movie about some nice people who have been made in the image of a very nice Jehovah. - Richard Schickel
...might well pass for a negligee. Looking much like a vapid blonde flapper out of a 1920s perfume advertisement, she exudes a musk of sensuality that obviously makes Dracula yearn for more than blood. The rest of the cast is exemplary, and the sounds of baying offstage hounds are ear-tingling. But the show belongs first, last, and almost always to Gorey and Langella...
...constant that knits them together is Mamet's ear, which is a precision instrument. He recognizes the shaping force of language-how it is used as a weapon or a shield depending on what a character wishes to convey or conceal...