Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Phillips' piece is guaranteed to throw our historian into a state of astonishment, if not amusement as well. For in less than two feet of print, Phillips presents to his readers all the elements that together comprise the hard right ideology in its most unadorned form. Phillips takes the conservative line to such extremes that no satirist, no matter how talented, could have produced a better parody of the cause. And no other tract comes to mind which more ruthlessly reveals the far right's Manichaean mindset as this...
...usurper. Supposedly, Americans are committed to the primacy of the political process. Policies obtain legitimacy, any school boy could tell us, not because they are intrinsically right, but because they were approved through the proper constitutional process. The far right, then, for all its pretenses to patriotism, represents nothing less than a basic rejection of American constitutionalism...
Doctors generally advise patients to use the medicated cream (cost: $15 to $25 a tube) as often as every day for about six months, then less frequently after that. Side effects, which usually last two to six weeks, include skin irritation, scaling and peeling. Dermatologists caution against overdoing it. One woman, convinced that more is better, began slathering it on six times a day. Says Kurtin: "When she came in after a week, she was a mess...
...drug at all. "The only thing I see Retin-A doing is irritating the skin and increasing the susceptibility to sun damage and thus to skin cancer," says Dr. Carl Korn of the University of Southern California Medical School. "To my eye, using four-times magnification, the effect is less than dramatic," notes Dermatologist Gabe Mirkin of Silver Spring, Md. "And on patients over 55, because the deep wrinkles so predominate, it's just not worthwhile...
Watch out, Folger's and Maxwell House. Coca-Cola is circling the breakfast table and coffee break. The Atlanta-based company is promoting the top-selling soft drink, which has only about one-third less caffeine than coffee, as the eye-opener of choice. Billboards and radio commercials in Atlanta, New Orleans and Knoxville urge people to have "a Coke in the morning." Local bottlers echo the theme in Kentucky, Oklahoma, Virginia, Wisconsin and Florida...