Word: pallor
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...riveted attention -- the Soviet crackdown in Lithuania, the fighting in Somalia -- became secondary. When violence is so elaborately laid out in advance, when it is both insistently menacing and hypothetical, it loses spontaneity. The waiting makes war seem unnatural. By last week so much premeditation had given a certain pallor to the American mood, a sense of resignation, of mingled apprehension and anger: ^ a kind of chill where passion is supposed to be blazing up at the start of a war. The country had worn itself out, a little bit anyway, by revving its aggressive engines so hard without taking...
Nicotine operates on other parts of the body as well. By constricting blood vessels, it casts a pallor over the face and diminishes circulation in the extremities, often causing chilliness in the arms and legs. It relaxes the muscles and suppresses the appetite for carbohydrates. Since nicotine cannot be stored in the body, smokers maintain a relatively constant level in the blood by continuing to smoke. "Because you take 200 to 400 of these hits a day, there's a lot of reinforcement," says Nina Schneider, a psychopharmacologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. "It's self-administered...
Harvard students, unlike other anthropoid primates but like certain arboreal rodents and members of the ursine order, undergo peculiar physiological shifts as the nights lengthen and the weather turns cold. A pallor sets in around the cheeks and jaw, the hair becomes dishevelled, and exhaustion and bad breath replace the generally sunny, if somewhat offstandish, demeanor. As the progress continues, cause feeds on effect, creating a downward spiral of personal appearance and emotional well-being...
Certain facts in the case are not in dispute. Warhol, 58, underwent surgery at the hospital on Feb. 21. At 4:30 the next morning, his private nurse, Min Cho, made note of his increasing pallor, but it was not until 5:45, when he was "unresponsive" and turning blue, that she summoned the hospital's cardiac-arrest team. He was pronounced dead at 6:31 a.m., of an unexplained heart arrhythmia, or abnormal heartbeat...
...that when Americans go to the opera they look like they are at death's door? Perhaps it is the power of this music from long-dead times that casts a pallor of thinning hair and pale complexions on opera goers...