Word: leper
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...R.E.M.'s lyrics is usually enigmatic, and the songs are often constructed in an offbeat manner. On the new album, for example, Leave begins with an acoustic guitar dancing slowly with an accordion-like sound, before a blaring synthesizer, sounding almost like a police siren, kicks in. New Test Leper finds the band in a gentler mood. It's a soothing, meditative song that's tunefully and tastefully sweetened by a mandolin. A big rock number, Undertow, is an expansive and expressive crowd pleaser that the band played on its last concert tour...
...rosy glow emanating from our healthy Harvard cheeks has dissipated. If you skied or beached over break, you probably look like a leper at this point. If you happened to be among the unlucky half of campus accustomed to taking ill the instant school gets out, just be sure to "please use the utensils provided" in certain public arenas, OK? Is it not enough that you blow your noses in the dining hall? Must you also contaminate us by using your Peter Rabbit silverware set and your Waffle House...
...soothe the excruciating pain and eradicate the lesions that occur in severe cases of the infection. The only alternative treatment, corticosteroids, does not work as quickly or as completely. "The pain was so great that I couldn't walk," says Irani, 24, a former patient at the Santa Isabel leper colony. "I almost died. Thalidomide was my salvation...
...Paddy piously believes the conventional wisdom shared by his friends: "When you were doing a funny face or pretending you had a stammer and the wind changed or someone thumped your back you stayed that way forever." And juvenile humor naturally appeals to him: "Did you hear about the leper cowboy? He threw his leg over his horse...
...Ganesha, the Hindu god who embodies childish playfulness, zest for life and prankish humor. During the course of almost three hours, he appears in countless guises across a tourist's landscape of India, as a Japanese husband and later his wife, as a street peddler, a beggar and a leper, not to mention moments of high-spirited invisibility when he is simply a god. He attaches himself to two suburban American matrons, old enough to be grandmothers and self-aware enough to be deeply discontented with their outwardly settled world. They are looking for magic and miracles -- the magic...