Word: effective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Camel and the Marlboro Man will be out of our children's reach forever," said Clinton--hopefully. The changes, first previewed last summer, are likely to be tied up in the courts for years. If they take effect, cigarette sales would require a photo I.D. offering proof of age. In magazines read by a significant number of teens, tobacco ads would be limited to a black-and-white, all-text format--no photographs, no cartoon camels with phallic snouts. The same rules would apply to billboards, which would be banned entirely within 1,000 ft. of schools or playgrounds. Sponsorship...
...started out at Kessler "with a kind of arrogance and denial," but then began to accept the institute as the locus of his recovery. A nurse named Patty forced him to read a manual on spinal-cord injuries (he had refused at first). He read about the effect of paralysis on respiratory problems, on bowels. He read about sexual activity. He read about the dangers to which he was prone, like dysreflexia, a condition most commonly resulting from a clogged bowel or urinary tract, which the patient cannot feel until too late and which can lead to high blood pressure...
...Sometimes I'll spasm while they turn me. The effect of a spasm, the tension of it, goes straight to my neck. It stiffens like a tree trunk. If I'm awake, I'll ask the nurse to give me a soft-tissue massage, which goes deep into the muscles. I have to take about 12 kinds of pills plus Metamucil. Pills to help control the spasms. Pills to prevent infection in the stool...
...sheets. And everywhere bosoms--bosoms so large and preternaturally firm, thanks to the miracle of plastic surgery, that the question arises: Are they live or are they Mammorex? But for DTV, cleavage has it all over big stunts and pricey morphing tricks. Says Wynorski: "Breasts are the cheapest special effect in our business...
...sentence, and an appeal of Chun's death sentence is automatic. TIME's Stella Kim reports from Seoul that there is widespread speculation that President Kim may offer both men some form of clemency after the appeals process plays out, probably in mid-1997. President Kim must weigh the effect on public opinion of clemency or pardon, TIME's Kim notes, because his party faces national elections next December. "One legal scholar said that if President Kim abused his right to grant clemency, then the moral lesson taught by this trial would be useless." But there are many who feel...