Word: elementals
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Above all, discipline may be the crucial element in the success of That's Life! There is always a strong temptation in pictures of this ilk to provide the stars with thumping self-recognition scenes. But if the scales finally fall from Harvey's eyes, they do not clang loudly to the floor but slither there ambiguously. Although Gillian surely understands that she is a kind of human sponge, sopping up all her family's messy emotional spillovers, the script never gives her the sort of revolutionary speech that would make a feminist stand up and cheer. Such words would...
Once again the Democrats have missed the boat. There's nothing new or exciting about the vast, mushy center where all political fence-sitters feel most at home. Americans have not embraced President Reagan because they support every element of his right-wing vision; rather, they've given him their votes simply because he has a vision. Any vision...
Whether espousing church doctrine or schussing down a snowy slope, John Paul II has always enjoyed lofty perspectives. Last week the high-minded Pope was in his element during a 24-hour visit to the mountainous northern Italian region of Val d'Aosta. No one wanted to risk a papal stumble, of course. So he was helicoptered on a sightseeing tour of the area around Mont Blanc, Europe's tallest peak (elevation 15,771 ft.), and troops checked every possible loose rock at the places where he was to set down. The Pope nonetheless did his best...
...room all day, seeing God dance in the soaps. What goes on in that mind, in that room? To begin to know that might be a way to demystify the -- what? -- plague, curse, disease, tragedy, normality of drugs. The center of the wanting mind reaches toward and creates every element of the drug world. Is one supposed to lecture that mind, eradicate it, hate it, arrest it, weep for its plight...
...technology is only one element in solving health problems woven deeply in the structure of society [in many poor nations,]" said Michael R. Reich, lecturer in International Health. "The general decline in mortality rates in the West have resulted more from public health methods, such as improved sanitation, rather than medical technology...