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Some People, Places, and Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel, by John Cheever. Pursuing the invisible fly in the ointment of their lives, John Cheever's decent, middle-class people drop into a limbo of alcoholic oblivion, sexual promiscuity and lonely despair that very much resembles hell...
Spread daily on the body in the form of an ointment, MBEHQ interferes with formation of the natural skin pigment. It works only on Negroes who already exhibit telltale light splotches of vitiligo therefore have a demonstrated tendency toward depigmentation. Dr. Stolar reported that he had successfully treated more than 300 vitiliginous patients, many of whom chose to use the ointment only on small areas of their skin. But 16 patients who decided to try MBEHO more extensively, Dr. Stolar said, have achieved almost total body depigmentation, which presumably will last as long as they continue using the drug...
...Loaded Ointment. For months West German secret police had suspected that there was a security leak in the defense committee. Last week police agents trailed two suspected couriers to the Bonn Airport, seized the pair for questioning after one had booked passage to Vienna. In their luggage the police found a dry-cell battery and a tin of "Vasenol ointment." Inside the battery were microfilms of a secret, detailed West German defense budget and a secret list of all West German naval vessels. When a government agent tried to open the ointment, it blew up in his face...
Bacitracin ointment...
...feet, but as his Mary with Child shows, he worked in a still more tenderly mysterious vein than that of his master. At the Virgin's left sits a powerful and pensive Mary Magdalene, holding a jar of ointment and looking like a second, less spiritual mother to the child, a sort of earth mother. At her feet kneels the picture's donor, who wanted himself painted as a pilgrim...