Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soon slows down vital functions. A large enough dose will stop them altogether. Yet it is often difficult to determine the exact cause of death. Dr. Milton Helpern, New York City's chief medical examiner, says that there is no clear evidence of simple overdose in the great majority of heroin deaths. Instead, 90% are caused by what he calls an "acute reaction" to the drug or its adulterants. "We don't like to call them overdoses...
...showing people that we're trying to improve the quality of the sport in this area." Quality, in fact, is the keynote of Veeck's latest pitch. "You shoot off your fireworks and pull your stunts," he says, "but all that is frosting on the cake. Great racing is the thing...
Tanner never did win great acclaim at home during his lifetime. But now Washington's National Collection of Fine Arts is about to correct the oversight with a retrospective of 80 paintings, drawings and studies that range from a pastoral done in his student days to a Return from the Crucifixion completed before his death...
...works on view vary widely in quality. Particularly in Tanner's later years, when he was living in Paris without being able to sell much work, many of his paintings were second-rate. Yet at his best, he was a draftsman of great ability, a recorder of daily life with understanding and warmth, a religious painter with gifts considerably exceeding those of a mere illustrator...
...eternity. A more immediate concern for many actors and actresses is that few have the physical endowments to withstand public scrutiny. Shelley Winters, now 46, observed of onstage nudity: "I think it is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive, religious experience...