Word: gagged
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...commercials, and hitting upon something far darker. In fact darkness is the only real unity, other than production values, that holds the disc together. Most every track is saturated with ghostly echoes and reverb, making for some very uneasy easy listening. The name isn’t just a gag: it really is haunted...
There's a running gag in Floater, Calvin Trillin's 1980 comic novel about a newsmagazine that sounds a lot like TIME, in which the medicine writer comes down with the symptoms of whatever disease he's writing about that week. I was reminded of that hapless writer when I read about a new study out of University College London that found that people who use the Web to get information about their chronic diseases often wind up in worse shape than before they logged...
...Seoul says security is its worry, particularly after the beheading of civilian translator Kim Sun Il in June. "Reporting the situation of troops moving to Iraq," says Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Jong Chan, "could give our information to terrorists." But the deployment is controversial domestically and the voluntary gag helps prevent the issue from becoming an even larger political football. "This is very close to media censorship," says Park Tae Jeon, editor in chief of Pressian, a popular online news site that has refused to accept restrictions. "If we go along with it, we won't be able to inform...
...Jordan" (Pantheon; 288 pages; $21) collects Mark Beyer's comic strip that ran in a select few alternative weekly newspapers during the early 90s. A tour de force of the form, it combines wild, fever-dream visions with dark, existentialist gag humor. Beyer takes all the clich?s of the traditional "laugh-a-day" strip and turns them inside out. The typically cute, bourgeois family of the dailies has been replaced by Amy and Jordan, a fear-filled, childless couple who live in a nameless city full of bugs, aliens, dirt and neighbors like Dame Head, who is just a head...
...thought of slurping a raw egg makes you gag, try easing your hangover with some prickly pear fruit extract. Researchers in?where else??New Orleans asked 55 volunteers, of ages 21 to 35, to get drunk and endure a hangover for the sake of science. Half the tipplers were given an extract of the prickly pear cactus plant before their binges; the other half were given a placebo. The following morning, people who took the cactus extract suffered significantly less from nausea, dry mouth and loss of appetite than those who got placebos. The latter group also had 40% higher...