Word: injection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nerve endings, physicians often rely on a technique known as rubber-band ligation. A tiny rubber band is looped tightly around the swollen region. No longer drawing nourishing blood, the hemorrhoid withers away. Carter, plagued by hemorrhoids since college, had just such a procedure in 1974. Some doctors inject a special solution into nearby tissue that constricts the vessels and thus cuts off the blood supply. Still another technique involves dilating, or widening, the anus with stretching devices...
Speaking about last week's mass suicide by members of the People's Temple, Carter said that the nation should not overreact by trying "to inject government into religion...
Perhaps Stallone foresaw some problems with such jejune characters. This would explain his painstaking efforts to inject some life into this insipid movie. He does anything to wring some emotion out of the audience, but the credibility and consistency of Paradise Alley suffers...
Love scenes aside, Corky's exchanges with Fats provide the only riveting moments in the movie. The early dialogues inject some much needed, if admittedly ghoulish, humor into the film; the later ones are truly terrifying, as Corky literally spins out of control. The dummy looks amazingly like Hopkins, with exaggerated features that caricature the actor's perfectly. This mocking resemblance not only allows for several nice shots contrasting the two faces, but emphasizes the entire concept of Fats and Corky's alter-ego. Fats' face, like his personality, becomes a grotesque parody of Corky...
...resources away from the parties and into a sort of fragmented political free-for-all. The extent of the political transformation can be seen in the extravagant use of television, which more than any other single factor has cut loose candidates from their parties and allowed them to inject themselves directly into the constituent consciousness: individual packaging instead of bulk. In this election, TV spending by candidates for Congress and state offices exceeded anything in the past...