Word: onto
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There is no shortage of old wives' tales about the virtues of eating fish: it is "brain food," according to legend, and cod-liver oil is a cure for all that ails. The wives may have been onto something. Eating a little fish a day may indeed keep the doctor away, particularly the cardiologist. That is the implication of three new studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine...
...eager was Pepsi to capitalize on its rival's new taste that it videotaped the commercial the weekend after Coke's surprise announcement and rushed it onto the air the following Monday. Normally television advertisements are done on film, and production can take months. Explained Director of Publicity Rebecca Madeira: "We are taking advantage of what we see as a big window to win over dyed-in-the-wool Coca-Cola drinkers...
...journalists from 53 nations to last week's summit; the White House provided them with a 32-page schedule covering virtually every step to be taken by President Reagan and the White House press corps during the first four days in Bonn. NBC Correspondent Irving R. Levine clambered onto a restaurant table so cameras could present a clear shot of him delivering his report with the Rhine in the background. The reporters raced among briefings often conducted simultaneously in five languages and scrambled for every scrap of news or reasonable facsimile thereof. Sample: TV interviewers surrounded Nakasone after his bilateral...
...with desperation to almost any foreigner they encounter. Before opening Ho Chi Minh City's doors to Western newsmen, the government tried to shut away many of these children in a nearby detention center. Last week one boy, barely in his teens, who had escaped the roundup, began holding onto an American journalist, writing down what looked like a G.I. serial number and repeating, over and over, "Papa." Within minutes, a policeman seized the boy and dragged him away in handcuffs. By then, however, the plaintiveness of his appeal, like the toughness of his country, had left its mark...
...very greatest drawings on the Morgan's walls is Rubens' portrait of his sister-in-law Susanna Fourment, a likeness breathed onto the paper with lyric, impalpable precision in three schematic chalks (white, black and sanguine), conveying the fullest sense of Rubens' appetite for character studies delicately balanced between intimacy and formality. Viewing such work, one realizes that there is no Rubens (or Durer, or Mantegna, or Watteau) of / the late 20th century; what we see here are emblems of a tradition that ended, except for footnotes, with Picasso...