Word: pills
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chemical and biological weapons that might be used by the Russian KGB. Former CIA Director Richard Helms reported that a KGB agent used poison darts and poison spray to assassinate two Ukrainian liberation leaders in West Germany. The CIA also wanted to find a substitute for the cyanide L-pill, the suicide capsule used in World War II. Cyanide takes up to 15 minutes to work and causes an agonizingly painful death by asphyxiation. Said Colby: "Agents didn't want to face that kind of fate...
THERE'S A LOT of humor on this album, a humor closer to the playful spirit of John Wesley Harding than the cruel mockery of "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" ("You may think he loves you for your money/But I know what he really loves you for/It's your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat") from Blonde on Blonde. Irreverence ("Gonna save my money/And rip it up"), ribald allusions ("That big dumb blonde with her wheel gorged") and word play ("One must always flush out one's house/If he doesn't expect to be housing flushes") combine to create...
...been known since the late 1960s that for some women, the Pill enhances the dangers of blood clots forming in the legs (thrombophlebitis) and traveling to the lungs (pulmonary embolism), with possibly fatal results. The Pill may also cause strokes. That indictment originated with two teams of Britain's most eminent epidemiologists, now at the University of Oxford. The danger has since been widely confirmed, although the risk that any particular woman will suffer any of these severe effects is statistically small. The latest indictment is based on two later studies by essentially the same research teams...
...were published in a May issue of the British Medical Journal, the FDA's advisory committee on obstetrics and gynecology (ten M.D.s, one Ph.D.) met and concluded that a warning was justified. Among British-as well as American-women aged 30 to 39 who do not use the Pill, the incidence of nonfatal heart attacks is only 2.1 per 100,000. But for those on the Pill, the rate rises to 5.6 per 100,000. For women aged 40 to 44, the rates for the two groups are 9.9 and 56.9 respectively. Similar increases are found in the rate...
...reassurances: the currents in this work are complex, but Scott's style is lucid and well tethered to physical realities. The novels are serious, but they are also a weaving of well-told stories, and reading them gives no sense of swallowing a moral pill. For those who must have comparisons, the most apt one that comes to mind is Ford Madox Ford's four-volume meditation over the coming apart of the British Empire, Parade's End. Those few who have read Ford's magnificent work will know that the comparison is high praise indeed...