Word: potion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...already the No. 1 prescription drug in America, and it is about to hit its demographic sweet spot: the millions of baby boomers now experiencing their first hot flashes. What Wilson didn't appreciate, but what today's women should know, is that, like every other magic potion, this one has a dark side. To gain the full benefits of estrogen, a woman must take it not only at menopause but also for decades afterward. It means a lifetime of drug taking and possible side effects that include an increased risk of several forms of cancer. That danger was underscored...
Minnesota ALG, as it became known, turned out to be highly effective. As patient survival rates improved, other surgeons clamored to get hold of the potion. Between 1970, when Najarian obtained permis-sion from the FDA to produce and use the compound on an experimental basis, and 1992, when the FDA shut down the operation, Minnesota ALG was shipped to 175 transplant centers around the world and was used by more than 50,000 patients. Along the way, it generated an estimated $80 million in revenues, enough to finance a $13 million production facility on the University of Minnesota...
...performed by the Los Angeles quartet the Robins, is vintage rhythm and blues by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, the songwriting team who, as much as anybody, invented rock 'n' roll. To imagine '50s pop music without their propulsive tunes-Hound Dog, Kansas City, Jailhouse Rock, Searchin', Love Potion #9, There Goes My Baby, Love Me, Yakety Yak-is pretty much to imagine the '40s. As writer-producers, impresarios on call to Elvis Presley, the Coasters, the Drifters and many more, Leiber and Stoller were the prime concocters of sass, smarts and blue-eyed soul in rock's first decade...
...only there were a magic potion for losing weight. The morning trudge to the bathroom scale would no longer be so disheartening. The obligatory resolution to shed a few pounds would be easier to keep. And the canny scientists and entrepreneurs who developed this antiflab formula would be richer than Ross Perot. Unfortunately, repeated efforts to produce a weight-loss wonder drug have been no more successful than Perot's presidential bid. Dozens of diet pills have come and gone, raking in billions of dollars for pharmaceutical manufacturers. But for long-term effectiveness, the pills might as well have been...
...Henrik (Bjorn Bjelvenstam), Egerman's grown son from his first marriage, is in love with Anne. Old Mrs. Armfeldt, prodded by her daughter, invites everyone to spend the weekend at her country estate. During the course of the summer night, and under the influence of a mysterious love potion served at dinner, eight people turn into four couples...