Word: liquid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sleep." Buyers with bad backs report noticeable relief. But perhaps the greatest impetus to sales has been provided by another remarkable quality of the waterbed. Claims an Aquarius ad: "Two things are better on a waterbed. One of them is sleep." Urges another advertisement: "Live and love in liquid luxury." A third promises: "She'll admire you for your car, she'll respect you for your position, but she'll love you for your waterbed...
...dismisses all this. "I'm not hungry enough to be a star," she says. "Or even an actress." She doesn't have to be hungry or an actress. She just has to stand there, and people buy tickets. The clean-boned, finishing-school face, the large, liquid eyes that cannot express doubt, the barely upholstered model's body, the metallic purr?that is not standard
...with psychiatrists and fellow addicts. As in some civilian programs, methadone is used to help heroin addicts through the withdrawal period and satisfy their chemical needs. But the most dramatic technique is the "shoot-up" where the more serious addicts inject themselves or each other with a nausea-producing liquid. The shooting-up takes place in a crash pad of pulsating lights, acid-rock stereo, Day-Glo and even antiwar posters. The patients first smoke joints that taste like marijuana but are not, then inject themselves with needles. After the pleasant rush, they vomit into plastic bags...
...liquid diet maintained Mrs. Smith in good health, and she actually put on weight. But then Mrs. Smith's leg veins began to break down from repositioning of the shunts. Intravenous feeding could not go on indefinitely...
...categories of food-such as lemons, chocolate, garlic, potatoes, shellfish, mushrooms, nuts, cheese-followed by recipes. The essays offer detailed information about the properties of each food and how it reacts to mixing and heating. The would-be cheese cook who achieves Silly Putty instead of a creamy liquid is told among other things to avoid several common varieties and to buy others, notably Cheddar, only when aged. The section on the mysterious ways of chocolate might have been written by a scientist. In fact, after finishing Field, the reader may feel more like a chemist than an alchemist...