Word: pang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sailing ship. But no matter. Jenefer is a sylvan spirit who lives on simple fare such as grapes, sardines and raw string beans. In fact, her isolation is so great that she worked in the nude while building her two-room redwood shack. Her only complaint is an occasional pang of loneliness: "At times I wish I lived in a rented house in town. People don't come up here much...
...pace story. "What's this with a man and a fish on the cover of TIME?" asked Larry Woods, an Atlanta journalist. "What about inflation, the beef shortage and crime?" Roxanne Rich, a 22-year-old Minneapolitan working with runaways in the slums of Boston, felt a pang of nostalgia...
...that the being of the novel parallels that state of dreaming? Nabokov's last sentence tells of the death of the hero but also takes leave of the strange realm the novel has created: "This is, I believe, it: not the crude anguish of physical death but the incomparable pang of the mysterious mental maneuver needed to pass from one state of being to another...
Nerve Circuits. Worsley's sort of explanation and his claims of success hardly satisfy the scientifically minded. Dr. Pang Man, director of research at the Northville (Mich.) State Hospital and a participant in the Einstein operation, subscribes to the neurological approach put forward by Professor Ronald Melzack of McGill University. Called the "gate control theory" of pain, it holds that certain nerve cells in the spinal cord can either inhibit or intensify the flow of pain impulses to the brain. If the theory is correct, implantation of acupuncture needles could prevent pain in two ways: first, by blocking...
...photography is so static that the movie sometimes seems paralytic. Occasionally Director Saul Swimmer will suffer a pang of social conscience and cut away to grainy documentary footage of starving refugees.* He does this so casually and irregularly, however, that the effect is gratuitous...