Word: flushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...informed of several shattering discoveries. Among them: a fatal flaw in Einstein's special theory of relativity, a motor that runs on psychic energy, and a page from Leonardo Da Vinci's newly discovered notebooks, the Madrid Codices, which conclusively prove that the Renaissance man invented the flush toilet 500 years ago. Respondents who are bombarding the magazine with telephone inquiries and letters are being advised to take a second look at the article. It is sprinkled with names like Ms. Henrietta Birdbrain and Robert Ripoff-as befits an April Fools' piece. Actually, the biggest giveaway...
...captive chicks are no more spiritually attractive than they are mentally alert. Nor are their hardships exactly heartrending. It is true that their cellar prison lacks fresh air, sunlight, comfy mattresses and a flush toilet and that the food is just not up to international cruise standards. Still, one cannot help thinking that a little down-and-out living may be good for them...
Monet wanted people to believe -and how successfully he made them believe it!-that he painted everything in the open air, in the flush and excitement of confronting his subjects. He would even speak of his two years' military service with the Algerian cavalry in 1860-61 as though they were nothing but art training: "You can't imagine how much I learned in this way, how well it trained my eye." In fact, as Art Historian Grace Seiberling points out in her excellent catalogue essay, Monet both cultivated and violated the myth of impressionism. From the garden...
...Paris école supérieure, recommends a diet that eliminates those foods she believes will leave behind the "toxic wastes" that contribute to cellulite. The low-salt diet includes raw vegetables and fruit, skim milk, lean meats, poultry and fish. It also includes plenty of water to help flush out the system and foods chosen to assist the kidneys and digestive tract in the elimination of wastes. In addition, Ronsard recommends deep breathing, exercises such as jogging and gymnastics, massage to break up cellulite deposits, and relaxing to relieve tension...
...stony-faced Federal Judge John J. Sirica brushed aside all pleas for leniency last week and sentenced the three principal figures in the Watergate conspiracy to at least 2% years in prison. Former Attorney General John Mitchell's face went from pale to a pinkish flush, then pale again, as the grim news hit him. Former Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman scowled in anger. Former Domestic Affairs Adviser John Ehrlichman, his cheeks sunken, looked devastated...