Word: potions
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...through the darkened corridors of a huge and secret house. Loves flicker, footsteps echo, lines of poetry recur. All four feel their way through darkness, by hand and memory, and with all the phantom sensuousness that darkness brings. The effect is a little like Borges on a love-potion...
...Harvard field hockey team were to brew a magical potion to beat 13th-ranked Northeastern today at Cumncok Field, one major ingredient would be grass...
Madeline (Meryl Streep), an actress, and Helen (Goldie Hawn), a writer, are obsessed with their bodies. They will go to a quack doctor or a fat farm to get flat and firm. To find a potion that will keep them forever young -- a kind of Preparation Age -- Mad and Hell will even make a mud-pact with Satan. And you can bet the devil is a woman (Isabella Rossellini). Only the sodden man in their lives (Bruce Willis), a plastic surgeon turned makeup artist for the newly dead, has any understanding of the toxic wastes that lace the Fountain...
Doctors warn about the risks of taking prescription drugs or even food supplements without medical supervision. One smart bar in San Francisco started serving drinks laced with a potion called DMAE, for dimethylaminoethanol, that has induced severe cramps, diarrhea and chills in some users. Prescription medicines like vasopressin, normally used to prevent dehydration in patients with a rare form of diabetes, can trigger heart attacks in people suffering from coronary-artery disease. Even some of the seemingly harmless amino acids, when given to animals in large doses, have proved dangerous and sometimes deadly...
Also angling for kiddie cash are A Class Act, starring Houseparty's Kid n' Play (June 5), the Ralph Bakshi cartoon fantasy Cool World (July 10), Damon Wayans' Mo' Money (July 17), Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, with Beverly Hills 90210's Luke Perry (July 31) and Love Potion 9 (late August). The adult buried in every child will have to make do with Steve Martin's Housesitter (June...