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...assuage the Gallic gland, French men gulp some 7,000 varieties of patent medicines - notably, Les Petites Pilules Carters Pour Le Foie - as well as treating it to massage, hot baths, compresses, radioactive water, herbs, fasts, purges, exercises, and injections, naturally, of liver. Says an Anglo-Saxon doctor who has practiced for many years in Paris: "I have never examined a Frenchman who did not believe that he had liver trouble." Undoubtedly, the Frenchman's liver takes a worse beating than any other variety on earth, except that of the geese they force-feed for foie gras. The French...
Where women were concerned, Louis combined a grasshopper's attention span with the appetite of a tiger. Pompadour, who suffered from tuberculosis, desperately sought to divert him to less athletic pursuits, like amateur theatricals, at which she was gifted, and small dinner parties where the king could "pour his own coffee" and see a few friends. It was a great relief when, as her adviser, the Abbe de Bernis, related with exquisite courtliness, the King's "friendship took the place of gallantry." But then Pompadour had to be doubly on guard against being driven from favor by more...
...kind word to say for any woman he ever worked with," says Elaine bitterly. In fact, a little cloud of H25O4 does seem to hover over Laurence Harvey's head, sprinkling down on all around him, especially women. But he generally has the grace to pour a little milk after the acid. A Walk on the Wild Side he remembers as "a ghastly film, made more so by that ghastly woman Capucine," but he adds: "I suppose it's not her fault she can't act." And he thinks that Of Human Bondage-which opens in March...
...rather ironic that a person like Rolf Hochhuth cannot wait till the "Last Judgment" to discover truth! Why should he pour more salt on the wounds of World War II by questioning the integrity of a dead man who did so much good for humanity...
...pick out will dissolve more in one component than in the other when they are all shaken up in the glass tubes. The emulsion causes rapid distribution of the substances between the solvents. After the solvents have separated, the C.C.D.'s electronic brain tells it to tilt and pour off the liquid from the top of each tube into the next tube. Repeated hundreds or thousands of times over a period of hours or days, the process usually yields pure chemical compounds...