Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mass multiple births. The all-time high, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, is held by a woman in Sydney, Australia, who in 1971 bore nine babies; none survived beyond six days. Pergonal, a mixture of hormones obtained from the urine of postmenopausal women, stimulates maturation of egg-bearing follicles within the ovaries; sometimes too many eggs are eventually released. "The problem is, it's a very, very delicate balance how much of the stuff to use," says Allan Weingold, an obstetrician and gynecologist at George Washington University Medical Center in Washington. Even with careful monitoring, he says...
...customers taper off and new laws discourage happy-hour promotions, however, managers are pushing food to make up for lost liquor revenues. The China Rose in Arlington, Texas, replaced its traditional happy-hour offer with a 24-foot- long buffet stacked with Kung Pao chicken, Szechwan fish and egg rolls to keep customers on their stools. In front of the Long Beach Hyatt Regency hotel flies a flag emblazoned with a giant banana: the "fruit of the month" served at the hotel's jam-packed juice bar. "We're discouraging all- you-can-drink offers and free shooters," says Jack...
...lacked surefire commercial appeal, and all faced some critical skepticism, but they defied the doomsayers and hung on. Last week they were rewarded. Big River, a sweet, small, no-stars musical based on Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, captured ten nominations, one for best musical. Joe Egg, a searing and yet raucously funny story about the parents of a hopelessly retarded child, was nominated for three acting awards and for best revival. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, a bitter and explosive recollection of racial prejudice that unfolds during a recording-studio session for a 1920s blues band...
...Egg first appeared on Broadway in 1968, and its lead roles have been a recurrent draw to major actors ever since. For Jim Dale, a manic clown who won a Tony for walking a tightrope in Barnum, and Stockard Channing, a lopsided-grinning gamine best known for mugging her way through the movie Grease, there could scarcely be better parts to broaden their images. Brian and Sheila cannot have anything like a normal life if they keep their helpless spastic daughter Josephine; they cannot rid themselves of guilt if they remand her to the unloving custody of the state...
...charged with static electricity, quivering like Rousseau's own paintbrush; the swollen, white Melies moon; the black nomad like a toppled statue, her feet with their pink toenails gravely sticking up; the djellaba, with its rippling stripes of coral, Naples yellow, cerulean; and the lute, like a pale lunar egg, hanging on the brown sand as the moon hangs in the blue night. Reproduced a millionfold, this oneiric image became the Guernica of the tots, the standard decor of upper-middle-class childhood. Such fame, decanted on a single picture, can distort an artist's entire reputation...