Word: glandularly
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...Royal Ballet's prima ballerina Antoinette Sibley, 34, been given the plum of her career-a three-act version of Manon created especially for her by Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan-than she fell sick. A victim of frequent illness during her 18-year career, including tuberculosis and glandular fever, Sibley could not even start rehearsals last year because of an inflamed hip. Medication put her back on pointe, but she promptly irritated a nerve in her leg. Offstage again, she got the flu. When she finally opened in Manon last March in London, her personal triumph seemed as much...
...There are those who claim that the fictional 007 became a worldwide glandular and intelligence hero because John Kennedy said that he was a James Bond fan. It is established history that after Lyndon Johnson had the Fort Worth barbecue wizard Walter Jetton at the White House, Jetton's vans, filled with succulent ribs, were summoned by hostesses all across the land...
...last week of the experiment, the twelve women will be examined by doctors. Among other things, they want to know how the women responded to zero-G, whether there was excessive pooling of blood in the legs during weightlessness, and if there was any significant metabolic, cardiovascular or glandular changes...
...Kirstel (a woman clutching torn dolls), if placed next to a George Cohen construction of doll arms and legs, would point out the idea of fragmenting reality of piecing the world to death. A terribly effective comparison would be a doctor's visual document of a woman with a glandular disorder aside the "Earth Mother-Enormous" of James Sahlstrand. An enlarged frame from the film Ulysses of Molly Bloom jumping into bed with her lover, certainly would augment Steve Starr's embracing couple...
Through the cerebrospinal nervous system, the mind is able to dominate much of the body: how a man walks, talks, or wiggles his fingers is controllable by reason and will. But the body's glandular and visceral processes-run with sovereign independence by what scientists call the autonomic nervous system-have long been considered beyond the reach of conscious control. The only exceptions, it was thought, were bizarre and inexplicable cases, such as the Indian yogis, who can regulate their heart beat and their breathing. Now, though, experimental psychologists have proved that the body's autonomic system...