Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This revolution has been gradually brewing. Until they discovered in the 1930s that the disease pellagra was caused simply by a deficiency of B-complex vitamins, doctors thought that it was a form of psychosis. But proof that body and psyche are really part and parcel of the same physiological system did not come until the discovery of the first tranquilizers in the early 1950s. It was drugs like Thorazine that rapidly emptied mental hospitals, reducing a population of 560,000 to fewer than 200,000 in barely a generation...
...week in U.S. college and trade bookstores. Already selling briskly in Europe and Latin America, the cheeky seriocomics treat great thinkers with snappy drawings and humorous cartoon panels, presumably to appeal to the generation and others intimidated by reading the originals. "We're combining the popular Donald Duck form with serious intellectual thought," argues Pantheon Books' Tom Engelhardt, U.S. editor of the series' first title, the 158-page Marx for Beginners...
...procedure. Typically, they contain a test tube with the HCG antibody, sterile water, a stand and a dropper. If the woman adds a few drops of her first morning urine to this test-tube brew, then lets it sit for about two hours, a doughnut shape or ring should form on the bottom of the glass if she is pregnant. Warner/Chilcott, producer of one popular line of the kits, claims that its product, on first test, is 97% accurate if the results are positive and 80% accurate if the results are negative...
Fiction within fiction is an old form, predating Chaucer, Boccaccio and perhaps even Scheherazade, who provided the first law of storytelling: enchant or perish. Author Wain seems familiar with the rewards and risks of laminating two tales. Wain may not achieve the iridescences of Vladimir Nabokov, modern master of the technique, but he moves from one story to the other without draining color from either. One reason is Giles' ability to regard himself as a character. His comments when both he and his fictional doppelgänger love and lose: "He had been able to contemplate the story...
...biggest break with erotic conventions involves the introduction of impotence. This subject, needless to say, is the last thing a man wants to find in his porn. Yet some form of this failure figures in nearly all Nin's tales. A typical situation involves a husband who places his new wife so high on a pedestal that he cannot reach her to make love. Artists paint nude models instead of possessing them. Though these repeated male shortcomings may constitute a kind of sexual revenge, they also lend Nin's stories a plausibility missing in most erotica...