Word: relaxants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chance to settle old scores and topple old foes. When he discovers that his servants are all government spies, that his secret papers are no longer secret, and that his power is nil, he decides that since he has been politically dead for years, he may as well relax and die physically...
Oysters & Bequests. At home with his wife Kay, he preferred to relax with slippers and pipe, thumb through old auction catalogues. Occasionally he turned cook, entertained friends with gourmet Chinese dinners, including a sauce that he maintained had 99 ingredients...
...Nine of these have now been issued in fluid, faultless English translation. In Onnagata, a dedicated Kabuki actor who plays only feminine roles lives his onstage art offstage as well, falls in love with a nasty new-wave director. In Patriotism, a dis graced lieutenant and his wife rapturously relax in a last voluptuous night together-and discover that after such pleasures, hara-kiri hurts even harder. In the title tale, a young mother whose little son and daughter have recently drowned reluctantly realizes that her heart is not broken, impatiently longs for her own death as the only remaining...
...both fats and sweets-fried foods, ice cream, peanut butter, whole-milk cheeses (as distinct from cottage cheese), nuts and pastries, many of them set up an anguished wail: "Why, that's everything I live on." Dr. Fisher has another, admittedly impractical, prescription for his pimply patients: relax. Their acne, he notes, almost always flares up at such times of stress as high school exams, and two-thirds of them "look better after a carefree summer vacation...
...tense to wait until the evening. By the time evening comes I am ready to go eeeeeech! But that is all. The audiences are too hysterical now because I play too seldom. These hysterics, they bother me, they make me nervous. I have a responsibility to make the public relax. I am ready to play more...