Word: petted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...struggling model in Paris I experienced the futility of trying to apply New England rules of good behavior to the wrong environment. All of the by then ingrained qualities which had made me a teacher's pet in prep school discipline organization punctuality--were spurious currency in a community fueled by spontaneity in which models wandered into shootings late and relied on after-hours socializing to advance professionally Rejection as a model cut more deeply than rejection as a student because it was myself my face my figure my smile being rebuffed sometimes tactfully, often abruptly on a daily basis...
...brain cells may have died for the process to be reversed. "If we can come up with better diagnostic procedures, it might be possible to block the progress of AD chemotherapeutically in the next five years." says Gibbs of NIH One promising method is a new scanning process called PET (positron emission tomography), which measures glucose metabolism in living cells. PET-scan studies by Dr. David Kuhl of U.C.L.A., among others, have revealed drastic decreases in metabolism in the brains of AD patients. Kuhl hopes to develop an early diagnostic test so that AD patients can "receive treatment while their...
...boys separated at birth, one raised in the fetid poverty of the post-welfare state, the other by a scheming rich woman whom theatergoers will have no trouble recognizing as a caricature of the Iron Lady. However these dramatists voted last Thursday, they must be grudgingly grateful that their pet beastie will be around for a few more years. She is the noose they can pull around their tight little island...
...overly generous waistline. His former lover, the bisexual schoolteacher, was thrilled to see Fierstein win the Tonys; Fierstein, meanwhile, has become involved with another actor-writer. Right now, however, he is thinking about life after Torch Song, packing up in his dressing room, and saying goodbye to his pet rabbit, Arnold; a friend gave him the creature on the Broadway opening night, and it has resided in his dressing room ever since. "I told my replacement, David Garrison, that Arnold goes with the part," he jokes, then adds, more seriously, "No one opened doors for me. I banged on them...
...second open letter Bok also included a defense of what he says in the University's sincere commitment to ending apartheid in South Africa. He pointed in particular to his own pet project the funding of scholarships for South African Blacks to study in American colleges and universities. These scholarships are administered by two separate programs which were begun in the late 1970s...