Word: faintness
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...MEANWHILE, have the reciever jammed tightly into your temples--creating a permanent indentation in your already unsightly skull--trying desperately to pick-up faint traces of the conversation on the other line. When you are reconnected, your formerly friendly conversation then degenerates...
...well on my way. My appearance was shocking. I was about 20 lbs. underweight and malnourished, the result of giving up almost all forms of food except coffee, sugar and, of course, alcohol. I was in the early stages of delirium tremens, the DTs. I sometimes heard faint ringing noises in my ears and suffered unexpected waves of vertigo. I felt near constant pressure in my lower back and sides from the punishment my liver and kidneys were taking. My personality was also seriously diseased. I was nervous, reclusive, by turns extravagantly arrogant and cringingly apologetic. I tried to cover...
...they taste in his New Orleans restaurant, K-Paul's. The Prudhomme Family Cookbook (Morrow; 446 pages; $19.95) dishes up "old-time Louisiana recipes by the eleven Prudhomme brothers and sisters." This richly fragrant fare, based on lusty ingredients and strong Cajun seasonings, is not for dieters or the faint-palated. Jambalayas, boudins and gumbos abound. Prudhomme not only contributed his blackened-redfish recipe to Claiborne's book but also repeats it here, along with far more appropriate recipes for blackening chicken, hamburgers and pork chops, a technique that relies on spices and an almost white-hot iron skillet...
...made of sterner, that is dreamier, driftier stuff. Like Sylvie. Like Bill Forsyth. Not that he would ever pass judgment on the choices the women ultimately make. Or ask for an explanation. All he proposes is that if you lean in close to some people, you will hear the faint, possibly edifying beat of a different drummer...
Slowly, like a photograph developing in a darkroom, the faint outlines of how a Central American peace might look are beginning to emerge. The boldest step toward that goal was taken last week in El Salvador, where the National Assembly approved a broad amnesty law that applies to both leftist guerrillas and members of right-wing death squads. The bill was passed to comply with the Guatemala accord, which calls for the freeing of political prisoners but does not specify who fits that definition. Among those expected to benefit from the amnesty are the right-wing national guardsmen who killed...