Word: eaten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...male stars act impeccably. Grusin's twitching, hunched, sour-eyed Zoditch recalls a Scrooge who has out-eaten his suit size and suffers itching and cramping as a result. Benedict constructs a mournful, perpetually apologetic Chulkaturin who simultaneously invites scorn and nurturing, contempt and sympathy. In a lesser part, Jeremy Geidt plays a convincingly gruff, patriarchal Ozhogin, father to the object of Chulkaturin's clumsy and unrequited youthful affections...
...hear your name and you go in, feeling empty, like you haven't eaten and you don't want to, and a doctor and a nurse lie you on a table and put your feet in stirrups and do things with soft warm hands that scare you until they give you the sleep you asked for and you wake up somewhere else, recovering and alone, feeling fine and betrayed in a strange place...
...muddy meadow of thatched lean-tos surrounded by jungle. It has become home for 5,100 Miskito Indians who fled across the border into Honduras. Another 3,000 to 5,000 are expected in coming weeks. Food shipments are infrequent, and many of the refugees had not eaten in three days when Willwerth visited...
...warehouse will have filtered air and temperature and humidity controls. In the past, collections have been damaged because of heat and overcrowding. Silverfish have eaten labels off objects, leaving them with no identification. Leather has desiccated, wood has cracked and animal skins have split because of erratic temperatures. And periodically, in hot weather, beetle eggs unexpectedly hatch and the insects eat their way through plant specimens in the botany department. Security will be tight, to avoid embarrassing losses like last summer's theft of one set of George Washington's false teeth...
...year ago Charles Crandall, 73, was spending most of his days staring at the walls of his San Francisco apartment, subsisting on solitary meals eaten out of cans. Crippled by a childhood bout with polio and suffering from heart disease, he seemed destined for a nursing home. Had that been his fate, he says, "I don't think I would be living now." Instead, California social services agencies enrolled him in a new kind of program for the elderly that allowed him to continue living in his own home. Three days a week, from...