Word: magically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...always been waiting for the magic bullet," says Dr. Fernando Borges of the Florida Impotency Center in St. Petersburg, where he has been working with sexually dysfunctional patients for 21 years. "This," he says, "is pretty close to the magic bullet." The very day Viagra became available, Dr. John Stripling, an Atlanta urologist, churned out 300 prescriptions with the help of a rubber stamp he had had the foresight to purchase. At the Urology Health Center in New Port Richey, Fla., which participated in the drug's clinical trials, the waiting time to see a doctor for a Viagra consultation...
Even supporters of the pill worry about hyped expectations. "People always want a quick fix," complains Dr. Domeena Renshaw, a psychiatrist who directs the Loyola Sex Therapy Clinic outside Chicago. "They think Viagra is magic, just like they thought the G spot worked like a garage-door opener." In the wake of fen/phen and Redux, the diet-drug treatments that were pulled from the market last year after it was learned that they could damage heart valves, caution would be advisable with Viagra. But so far the side effects seem comparatively slight and manageable: chiefly headache, flushed skin, upset stomach...
...Manhattan's City Center, the cast of St. Louis Woman has gathered to run through the first act of the 1946 Harold Arlen-Johnny Mercer musical. "Lord knows what happens next!" bellows Chuck Cooper, a Tony Award-winning actor from The Life. What happens next is a little theater magic. Vanessa Williams enters, slithers onto a straight-backed chair and sings Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home. This tune is a taunt, a turf marking and a declaration of sexual independence in 32 bars. And with Williams, a young star of CDs, movies and TV, cooing...
Some of the shows have been commemorated on CD (not good enough--they all must be preserved!), but the magic moments occur in those long weekends onstage. A few to recall with a shivery thrill: the giddy glissandi of the Sing for Your Supper trio (Luker, Gravitte and Sarah Uriarte Berry) from The Boys from Syracuse; Kuhn, an angel lost in hell, singing The Man I Love from Strike Up the Band; the male chorale Some Girl Is on His Mind from Sweet Adeline--a rendition so pure and poignant that it left the City Center crowd in silent rapture...
With a three-game lead, Harvard's magic number for clinching its third straight Rolfe division title is two; any combination of two Crimson wins or Yale losses will earn the squad a trip to the Ivy championship series, currently up in the air between Princeton and Cornell...