Word: heartbeats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wait until Americans are pulverized and bloodied by too much noise? If it is loud and continuous, doctors know, noise irreparably damages the microscopic hair cells that transmit sound from the ear to the brain, thus causing hearing loss. In addition, it almost certainly affects blood pressure, heartbeat, and virtually every bodily function, and may have much to do with emotional ailments as well. Sums up Baron: "It is a form of persecution...
...SONG tells us, "You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant, exceptin' Alice" -and that's the whole story. We can't get Alice. We can't get at that central heartbeat that is the real source of life any better than Richard Nixon can. And if we can't get at that, we might as well be dead. When Shelly discovers that he can't have Alice, he not only goes back to heroin, but he kills himself...
...taunting the women in the audience as much as any torch singer ever taunted a man. As Jones puts it: "I'm trying to get across to the audience that I'm alive-all of it, the emotion and the sex and the power, the heartbeat and the bloodstream, are all theirs for the asking...
...physiological changes were modest. Novice smokers registered an increase in heart rate of 16 beats a min ute on the average (only a small fraction of what occurs at orgasm), while habitual users, who tended to start off with a slower heartbeat, showed a greater but not alarming increase. There was no significant increase in breathing rates. The tests confirmed the widely reported "redeye" effect of pot: the small blood vessels in the whites of the eyes became dilated, and the higher the dose the greater the dilation...
...qualities to be President, Ball said that Nixon might try to escalate the Viet Nam war, has no real convictions, and showed his irresponsibility by the "cynicism" with which he picked his running mate. "The preposterous idea that a fourth-rate hack politician like Agnew might stand within a heartbeat of the presidency," said Ball, "is fantastic and shocking." He added: "I think it is important that people not forget the 'Tricky Dick' that we used to talk about, because there was significance in that phrase...