Word: posing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...growing awareness of the vast scope of the toxic-waste problem has bred much public anguish but precious little remedial action. The Office of Technology Assessment, a research arm of Congress, contends that there may be at least 10,000 hazardous-waste sites in the U.S. that pose a serious threat to public health and that should be given priority in any national cleanup. The cost, OTA estimates, could easily reach $100 billion, or more than $1,000 per U.S. household. Eventually, predicts the General Acccounting Office, which also does studies for Congress, more than 378,000 waste sites...
...most people, the chemicals pose no danger. Still, a sizable number are apparently sensitive to sulfites. Their reactions range from hives, nausea, diarrhea and shortness of breath to shock, coma and brain damage, as well as death. Asthmatics appear to be at greatest risk. The FDA estimates that 450,000 asthma sufferers, or 5%, are sulfite sensitive. For many, suggests Immunologist Ronald Simon of the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in La Jolla, Calif., the problem stems from sulfur dioxide, which is released by the sulfite solution. The fumes cause spasms in the bronchial tubes, preventing oxygen from getting into...
...never subscribed to the theory that beautiful women are all airheads," said JoAnn Selig, Playboy's publicist, explaining the reasoning behind the feature. But she stresses that Mensa approached Playboy with the idea. For Coel, the opportunity to pose nude may lead to a new career in show business. "Physics is pretty much out of the picture," the computer expert explained...
Media also crowded around the Mensa models, whose makeup had already begun to crease and who looked nothing like their Playboy photos. A photographer from the Boston Herald guided the two around, using for props various magazines, notebooks and glasses to achieve exactly the right pose...
There's not the same compelling reason to see James Dean's REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (Orson Welles), except to toss the title around. Here we have desperation at its most stylish and vacuous, the new boy in town who has to pose tougher than a steroid-fed General Patton. But it's not just a cause that The Rebel needs, it's a family, friends. Where Natalie Wood's acting slips up a little, the skillful filming covers up, setting Dean in a fraction of a frame filled with lonely cliffs and ravines...