Word: far-out
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Many observers take it for granted that sexual "swinging" will never be more than a fringe phenomenon involving a few far-out types. Not so, suggests British Biologist Alexander Comfort. In the years to come, Comfort predicts, more and more couples may turn to group sex for satisfactions once sought only in traditional patterns of family living...
...Such far-out visions may be unrealistic, but some changes are taking place. Columbia University's newly established Institute of Human Nutrition is working on the problems of maternal and fetal malnutrition and developing educational materials for use in schools. Food processors, alarmed by the trend toward organic foods and shaken by the growing public reaction against additives, are improving the nutritional quality of many of their products. The Del Monte Corp., the world's largest producer of canned fruits and vegetables, has decided to include nutritional information on the labels of many of its products...
...like mass group therapy," says John Bloom, the 1520s creator, in explaining why people spend $7.95 for the privileges of eating a mediocre meal and taking part in the far-out activities. "This is a place where people can release their inhibitions. It's all in fun and we don't let it get out of hand...
...system or the code, "gypsy" mavericks are working the territory. In Act II, Hoss is challenged by a gypsy named Crow (Mark Metcalf). They engage in a sacrificial stomping dance entangled in electric cords and thrust microphones. It is part musical cutting session, part machine-gun duel of far-out words, and it is as chillingly old as a tribal rite in which the young warrior snatches control from the aging patriarch. The language varies between wild incomprehensibility and allusive symbolism. Crow, for instance, calls Hoss, "Feathers," meaning horse feathers, but also meaning that Hoss is chicken. Everyone should...
...speech hit McGovern hard without ever naming him. It did so by either overstating McGovern's already fairly far-out positions or tying him by implication to policies he has not actually advocated. Nixon urged Americans to "reject the policies of those who whine and whimper about our frustrations and call on us to turn inward." He suggested that McGovern was bent on making the U.S. "the second strongest nation in the world" through cuts in the defense budget. He claimed that McGovern welfare reforms would add 82 million people to the welfare rolls-a gross exaggeration...