Word: heightenings
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...Throughout history, princes and plain folk alike have searched for a true aphrodisiac, a substance to heighten sexual desire. Now researchers have found one that does just the opposite. They have developed a drug called ben-peridol, which, they claim, reduces or completely abolishes sexual desire. Doctors tested the drug successfully at London's Wormwood Scrubs prison, and believe it could prove valuable for treating sexual offenders. They also apparently feel that many law-abiding Britons are ready for a real version of the fictional "Anti-Sex League" in George Orwell's novel, 1984. Starting this month, they...
Kempton attempts to heighten ev ery detail into the importance of gen eralized truth. "Michael Tabor," he writes of one defendant, "had an intensity that overrode mere precedents; by mere presence, now and then un abashedly malign, he enforced the illusion that the insulted had come to vengeance." The language is accurate enough in its grand way, but eventually the reader cares less about the defendants than about the author, gesticulating here and there in a peculiar kind of 18th century jive...
...Nixon Administration gets its way in Congress, banks and S and Ls could actually heighten their bidding for savings in the future-and broaden it into a battle to provide the most generous terms on mortgage loans, personal loans and checking accounts as well. That is the goal of a sweeping set of legislative proposals that the Treasury unfurled late last week. The Administration will ask Congress...
...movie is cocky about its polish, to the point where the idiosyncracies of its characters over-shadow the detailed clues of what is a finely wrought plot. The clues seem presented only in afterthought, back-fitted into an otherwise superfluous setting. Sheila does not heighten interest in the hunt for the murderer's identity, as a good mystery film should. It is always more interested in showing off its cast, its settings, and its special effects...
...Hendrix and Joplin legends satisfy precisely this fascination, and a whole school of films has capitalized upon this by exploiting rock's ability to suspend and heighten experience. Monterey Pop, Woodstock and Gimme Shelter use the camera to merely broadcast and reproduce the excitement generated by the music and the performers themselves. Rock and film sometimes mesh as neatly as bass and lead guitar. Gimme Shelter is at its best when the colored lights play over Jagger's body, and the Stones possess the stage. Offstage, without the protection of its excellent music, it grows tiresome...