Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...editorial in the Boston psychedelic newspaper Avatar was to the point-and not all that far from the truth. Methedrine, a powerful amphetamine known to hippies as "speed," is fast becoming one of the freakiest and most dangerous ways of turning on in the drug users' pharmacopoeia...
...this intermingling has the effect of broadening his pictures from the specific into the universal. It takes no special knowledge of slumland to appreciate the irony of a startlingly adult little girl licking an ice-cream cone amid hostile stares in a Harlem Summertime ("They grow up fast in that part of town"). Finally, what is true for his Negro subjects becomes true for every man. With this judgment, Bearden is in profound agreement. "My subject," he says "is people. They just happen to turn out to be Negro...
...more familiar applications, liquefied gases freeze food up to six times as fast as conventional freezing and produce smaller ice crystals, thus damaging fewer food cells. Liquid gases are being used in head and neck surgery, and to freeze human and animal semen for later use in artificial insemination...
...Fast Pace...
...said that Miss Taylor intentionally gained weight to play Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? If so, she must have gone into this film too fast to trim it off. Huston wisely spends most of the time presenting Miss Taylor in unbuttoned blouses, but a full-length nude shot of her (or her stand-in) climbing a stair simply fails to justify the spying enlisted man's sudden fixation for her. Her performance is, on the other hand, quite thin, with Miss Taylor's most affecting scenes those with her horse...