Word: painful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Never mind the fact that Cambridge is equipped with its own historical landmarks, theaters and neighborhoods. An anthology of tales about eight-hour organic chemistry labs, lunches in the Pit with preteen punks and idle afternoons lingering over coffee and croissants at Au Bon Pain does not a complete Harvard Summer School Extension student make...
...asks me about my medical concerns. I tell him about the two kidney-stone attacks over the past five years that sent me writhing in pain to hospital emergency rooms. I happen to mention an increased sensitivity to salt in my diet, resulting in a parched mouth, information that he dutifully jots down in my chart while observing, "Maybe your body is talking to you." Then he tells me that salt tends to precipitate calcium, a common component of kidney stones, out of the bloodstream into the kidneys. He informs me that excessive vitamin C can do the same thing...
...others." Lucia could be just comedy's favorite device, the useful fool, but Kudrow makes her funny and sympathetic. Her body language is eloquent--she walks like a constipated stork when her arms and tight lips aren't folded in disapproval of the whole rotten world. Attend to the pain in Lucia's eyes and then to the bloom of sexual radiance when she finds a man who says the magic words, "Look for me in any crowded room. And I'll do likewise...
Could you hurt me, sweet lips, though I hurt you? ... O splendid and sterile Dolores, Our Lady of Pain...
Have a child with an ear infection? Five days on antibiotics instead of the customary 10 may be all that's needed to clear up uncomplicated cases. A new study that looked at 20 years of data on 3,000 kids concludes that with either regimen, pain and fever usually subside within three days, and the odds of a relapse are about the same...