Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Acupuncture patients are understandably upset by the ruling. Mrs. Katchen says that she had spent $25,000 on orthodox treatment for a painful nerve condition without getting relief...
Then Bower's indulgent boss is killed in a cab accident. His replacement as agency head is George Brice, who looks like a druggist and talks fluent corporatese. Brice's reputation is based on the Relief headache-remedy ad, showing a diagram of a headache inside a head being attacked by little cowboys on horses. The cowboys are Relief's ingredient Sooth-X, and they got into the ad by decisively defeating little airplanes, tigers, rocket ships and genies in consumer testing reports. Brice's goal is to replace Gibbs & Wilson's list of luxury...
...previous novels like Yellow Flowers in the Antipodean Room and, more recently, Intensive Care, the author examines conventional attitudes toward death with both satire and wistful poetry. Talbot's parents, for example, respond to mortality by rushing an elderly relative into a nursing home with a sigh of relief that Miss Frame compares with "the faint whirr made by the garbage disposal unit when it comes to rest after doing its work." Yet her central symbol for this evasive herdlike response to death is a six-month-old buffalo in the Central Park Zoo that is "already trained...
...activities will (provided he has any sense) discuss those activities with the press. The knowledge that anything said to a reporter is subject to grand jury scrutiny effectively restricts the ability of the press to expose, investigate and analyze. Indeed, the Supreme Court's decision must come as welcome relief to shysters who know the chances are 50-50 they can buy off the police, but who become queasy under the curious eye of a self-righteous, snooping reporter...
Died. Edgar A.J. Johnson, 72, co-founder and former president of the Economic History Association who, as chief of the U.S. Economic Cooperation Administration mission to South Korea, directed relief and reconstruction programs in that country during the Korean War; of multiple myeloma; in Washington...