Word: happened
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...asks me about my medical concerns. I tell him about the two kidney-stone attacks over the past five years that sent me writhing in pain to hospital emergency rooms. I happen to mention an increased sensitivity to salt in my diet, resulting in a parched mouth, information that he dutifully jots down in my chart while observing, "Maybe your body is talking to you." Then he tells me that salt tends to precipitate calcium, a common component of kidney stones, out of the bloodstream into the kidneys. He informs me that excessive vitamin C can do the same thing...
...skin. He seems unfazed. "Young people are greasy, we're dry," he sums up. He checks me for moles with the potential for turning cancerous, and finds none. But he does discover a handful of tiny red dots on my torso, another sign of aging. "Hey, these things just happen," he says, and explains that as collagen, the matrix of supportive tissue under our surfaces becomes brittle, skin wrinkles and veins shoot off in odd directions. While flaking skin, itching, red spots and sun spots--sometimes called liver spots--are an inevitable part of aging, especially among light-skinned Caucasians...
...White House to refuse to say a word. There are times, Clinton confidants say, when the President fantasizes about marching down to the grand jury and saying, "Go ahead. Take your best shot." But that is pure swagger: his lawyers and the President know this must never happen, because they have spun out all the elaborate scenarios for how this drama might play out and concluded that Clinton has everything to lose by talking and everything to gain by his silence. The more he defies Starr, the more he confounds the whole legal process, the more likely it is that...
...chat on America Online last year, Hartman said, "I'm kind of at an intermediate level of celebrity, where pretty much everybody knows who I am but I haven't had the big breakout role that will take me to the next level. Sooner or later it will happen." Instead, it happened in real life, in the kind of melodramatic role that Hartman had always avoided...
...elegy on the death of Yeats, W.H. Auden wrote that "poetry makes nothing happen" and added, "It survives,/ A way of happening, a mouth." This sentiment seems a long step down from Shelley's 19th century claim that poets are "the unacknowledged legislators of the world." But both statements add up to the same thing: the practical life of getting and spending needs, however grudgingly, the exhilaration and consolation of poetry, of memorable speech, of words striving to be true to themselves. The 20th century perfected the hard sells of propaganda and advertising, but talented people still worked to keep...