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...work is like taking an unblinking look through the files of a psychiatric social worker. The Dead, her contribution to Prize Stories of the Seventies, follows a neurasthenic woman writer named Ilena through a declining marriage, a feverish love affair and literary success. The first line, taken off a pillbox, sets the tone: "Useful in acute and chronic depression, where accompanied by anxiety, insomnia, agitation; psychoneurotic states manifested by tension, apprehension, fatigue." The story has the quality of an intense case study with cultural footnotes. Some are ironic: "Newly divorced, she had felt virginal again, years younger, truly childlike...
...Jimmy Carter's cardigans or Lyndon Johnson's baggy pants. On the other hand, Jack Kennedy's two-button suits (whose looser lines he adopted to disguise the back brace he often had to wear) set a fashion for two decades. Jackie's Halston-designed pillbox hats were as common as canapes at cocktail parties of the '60s. If the Reagan look does not incite the masses to clothe themselves likewise, it promises both verve and dignity in the White House. -ByMichaelDemarest. Reported by Douglas Brew/Los Angeles and Georgia Harbison/New York
...little hero or has he simply made only token efforts at linking each sequence to the whole? He manages to reduce the most profound chapter of Grass' novel, a discussion about art and life between a midget magician and a soliderly artist to a frolicking picnic atop a cement pillbox...
Peppered with terms like status in congruity and dissonance and salted with references to Life Change Units and th Social Readjustment Rating Scale, Society Causes of Illness is not easy to read. But it is worthwhile for doctors and patient! Both can be notorious for rushing to the pillbox when alternative methods ar preferable. As Totman points out, any one can tell when he is sick, even a la man. The trick is to determine why, an to treat the nonmicrobial causes of illness as well. - Peter Stoler
...cocked hat of an Admiral of the Fleet, marched 2,500 servicemen and women from the British armed forces and those of other nations that had special meaning to the World War II hero. There were Sikhs in white turbans from his beloved India, Gurkhas in exotic black pillbox hats and a contingent of veterans from the U.S. and France. Prince Charles and the Duke of Edinburgh, Mountbatten's great-nephew and nephew, walked behind the casket, their faces taut with grief. So did a group of comrades who survived the 1941 sinking off Crete of the H.M.S. Kelly...