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Traditionally, doctors inject patients with live but mutated forms of viruses which cause diseases such as polio, measles and small pox in order to elicit a mild immune response. The body then relies on its immune "memory" to respond and effectively to another attack, and becomes protected against future infections...
...things at any moment." But like many people for whom affection comes easily, Crystal may have felt driven to test his positives. "It was easy to like Harry ((in When Harry Met Sally . . .)) and Mitch ((the mid-life ad guy in City Slickers)), but not Buddy. I wanted to elicit the complex affection for someone who does rotten things but who is not a rotten...
There is something dreadfully funny about all this. Have you never realized just how extraordinary a visit to the lavatory is? British comedians certainly have, and are well satisfied with their discovery. Yet I fear this humor is not well received here: casual references to anatomical deficiencies elicit concerned glances from some students, who clearly regard such remarks as signs of enormous repression. Then when the Id is delved into, blood jets spontaneously into my face and giggles grip my vocal chords...
...microphone or camera to conduct an interview, he seems to undergo a personality change. Suddenly, his favorite subject -- himself -- is no longer on the table. "I don't consider myself a journalist," King says, "but journalism results from what I do." In other words, he doesn't try to elicit facts so much as feelings, emotions, motives. "I like questions that begin with 'why' and 'how,' and I listen to the answers, which leads to more questions." It works: when Perot on his CNN Larry King Live show last February sounded tentative about the possibility of running for President, King...
...response was amended to include a category called "sexual negligence," intended to punish nonconsentual sex while not treating it as rape. The term encompasses acts in which the initiator "fails to elicit consent resulting in the physical or psychological harm of the victim...