Word: heartbeats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worst years. Last New Year's Eve, the Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks closed at 1004, its year-end record. By the final bell last week, the widely watched indicator had dropped 19%, to 815. The mood on Wall Street, among the brokers and traders whose heartbeat is the daily ticker, has turned from despair to anger. Says Peter L. Bernstein, an economist-consultant to large institutional investors: "We hate stocks, we hate ourselves and our customers hate...
...balance suffers as a result. The director undoubtedly made this change for a specific reason; by saving the murder of Theresa until the final scene, Brooks was able to exploit the effective technique of timing a flashing strobe light in her bedroom with the rapidly mounting and then slowing heartbeat of the victim. In so doing, however, Brooks traps himself in to the quandary of suddenly thrusting the murderer into the narrative without any kind of introduction. A vagrant cowboy type appears out of nowhere, picks up Theresa at Goodbar's and slays her--all within the brief span...
...expect your heart to leap into your throat at this Dracula. More likely, it will sink into another corner of sour anatomy. You would never hear your heart pounding anyway. Even if there were an ominous moment, your heartbeat would be blared out by cliched music of the horror-movie ilk. Every potentially scary minute is ruined, and by the third or fourth refrain the music is not even campy enough to be funny...
...found lying on the bathroom floor in the afternoon. All attempts to revive him failed. Presley had died of "cardiac arrythmia" -a severely irregular heartbeat-brought about by "undetermined causes." Doctors said there was "no evidence of any illegal drug use," although a new book co-authored by three former Presley bodyguards maintains that "E" consumed uppers, downers and a variety of narcotic cough medicines, all obtained by prescription. He also was wrestling halfheartedly with a fearful weight problem and was suffering from a variety of other ailments like hypertension, eye trouble and a twisted colon...
...1930s in diving mammals, like the porpoise and seal, which can remain submerged without breathing for periods of 20 minutes or more. And, confirms Nemiroff, the same automatic response works in humans as well. Triggered by held breath and cold water on the face, the diving reflex slows the heartbeat and the flow of blood to the skin, muscles and other tissues that are relatively resistant to damage from oxygen deprivation. At the same time, it sends the body's remaining oxygenated blood to the heart and to the brain, whose cells will indeed begin to die after about...