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...started grabbing for any kind of fluid I could get. Unfortunately, I ended up with orange juice. One sip and wham! Within a few seconds I had severe stomach cramps, a tremendous stitch from out of nowhere. I haven't had a cramp like that in years...
...some real messes come to me, and I help them to deal with the pressure," Sampson said. The importance of relaxation, achieved through hypnosis, is as great in working with college students as with any other group. Sampson also focuses on memory retention--better memorization of detail and fluid concentration during exam-taking. "Some of my students look at what I do for them as a way to get better grades. This may be true in one sense, but I look at my work primarily as a way to help these young people to survive tension and pressure...
THAT DEGAS WAS ABLE to carry off these humorous effects, often with a mere distortion of gesture or a slight exaggeration of a body type not yet fully suited to the fluid presence of a ballerina, rests entirely on his long study and thorough mastery of the possibilities inherent in the subjects to which he devoted himself. In the period that spawned his most successful and intellectually challenging work, he spent years on end in the practicing rooms where the ballet "rats" (girls, often from the slums of Paris, who devoted their young lives entirely to dance) limbered...
...intimate knowledge of the graceful "arabesques" (here again meaning "pattern of lines") to ingeniously turn on its head the wit of his voyeuristic studies of women doing their toilette. While this particular task might conjure up a singularly awkward and unattractive image, Degas transforms it into a pleasing, fluid pose. The right hand lies poised on the hip, leaving the arm curved backwards in an arc behind the back, while the left arm wraps tight around the body to reach the string, merging with the other arms to form a swirling ensemble...
...kidney was placed aboard a regularly scheduled Moscow-New York Aeroflot jet, while Shumakov sent word to U.S. doctors via a Soviet friend in New York that a kidney was on the way. Rushed by ambulance from the airport, the kidney was bathed in nutrient-rich fluid, then "typed" so that doctors could choose a recipient whose body tissue matched it. Out of the clinic's list of some 200 potential candidates, the doctors picked Puerto Rican-born Jose Serrano, a former construction worker with incurably diseased kidneys who was alive only because he was hooked three times weekly...