Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...articles about the proposed memorial which appeared in summer issues of Harvard Magazine and the Gazette were ill-timed if their goal was to promote student response. This proposal has become a major campus issue primarily due to the efforts of the Black Law Students' Association...
...strenuous mannerism has clotted her work: bizarre accents in The Hudsucker Proxy and Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, and, here, a surrender to the excesses of actressy masochism. As Sadie, she leaves no emotional scab unpicked. It's a role for which her voice, carriage and technique are ill suited; she's too small for these grandiloquent gestures. Georgia's big set piece is an eight-minute (or possibly eight-hour) Joplinesque song in which Leigh screams, whines and pleads "Take me back" while falling to pieces onstage. It's a startling, exhausting spectacle--and, like the rest...
...reconnaissance team went to Bosnia to scout out accommodations for the 20,000 American troops that are to follow over the next few weeks. Meanwhile the U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to shut down its ill-starred 31/2-year peacekeeping missions in Croatia and Bosnia by Jan. 31. Ninety percent of the 22,000 U.N. troops now stationed in the former Yugoslavia will simply take off their Blue Helmets and switch over to the NATO force...
...preached against the evils of silver amalgam more successfully than a Colorado Springs dentist named Hal Huggins. A prolific writer of antiamalgam articles, pamphlets and books, Huggins, 58, is the maestro of mercury removal. About 2,000 Americans, many desperately ill, have visited the Huggins Diagnostic Center, where a team of five dentists pulled out fillings in two custom-made "bubble operatories" designed to minimize exposure to toxins. At its peak, in the early 1990s, the center treated 32 patients a month, subjecting them to intensive two-week therapies and charging as much as $8,500 a mouth...
Douglass Shand Tucci '72, author of Built in Boston, a book of architectural history, said the decision to raze the cage was ill-conceived...