Word: ironizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...half-hour procedure, performed under local anesthesia, the physician uses a special needle-tipped device to inject rows of tiny dots of black or brown iron-oxide pigment 1 mm into the lids. It is a delicate undertaking, and pigment can inadvertently be put into hair follicles rather than under the skin. Another worry is that the pigment may migrate into the lymphatic system. J. Earl Rathbun, an ophthalmologist at the University of California, San Francisco, has a more mundane concern: "Making sure people know what they want and where they want it, because once...
Four wrought iron gateways will be inscribed with quotes from Kennedy's speeches. In accordance with the Kennedy's wishes, there will be no explicit statues of the late president...
There is confusion and concern over the proposals of the National Academy panel to reduce the recommended dietary allowances of iron, magnesium and zinc as well as vitamins A, B6 and C. The suggestions are part of a regular updating of the four-decade-old RDA tables, and must still get past months of elaborate academy review. Little objection is likely to the panel's plan of raising the calcium level for women, many of whom suffer from a debilitating bone condition in later years. But the downward revisions seem to some experts to be at odds with recommendations from...
...clumsy but inexorable way found that it was living in the "global village." That is Marshall McLuhan's term for a world so saturated with media that any significant act by anyone, anywhere, good or bad, is seen, reported and gossiped about. The Soviets stumbled from behind the Iron Curtain to face the cameras when they were clobbered on the world's tubes after bombing Afghan villages, blasting the Korean airliner, murdering Major Nicholson in Germany and committing a few dozen other uncivilized acts. Not only have the Soviets stolen (naturally) pages from American campaign manuals, they have even produced...
...legend has it, these crazy red and white "waffle-soled" shoes were invented by University of Oregon track coach Bill Bowerman. The story goes that he melted some rubber on his wife's waffle iron, and thus gave birth to the waffle shoe--and subsequently to the huge running craze...