Word: ridded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guffaws of pregnancy jokes continue to echo from other pages. But other questions seem to trouble Playboy readers-and the editor who selects which letters to print-far more. How much does one tip a blackjack dealer? What is malmsey wine? How does a fellow get-and get rid of-the crabs? Why do Japanese girls think American men smell bad? (Answer: carnivorous Americans eat ten times as much meat as Japanese and their odors prove...
...Therapy, is one danger of the method in unskilled hands. Reading somber verses with upbeat endings can help unhappy patients by demonstrating that "others have been depressed and have recovered," but despairing poems may deepen the feelings of hopelessness. Psychiatrist Rothenberg cites another danger: poetry used only to get rid of intense feelings can keep a patient from understanding and resolving his conflicts. "Poetry by itself does not cure," he warns. But used by properly trained therapists, he says, it has an advantage over the other arts because it encourages "verbalization, the lifeblood of psychotherapy...
...wanted to shoot the scene," says Coppola, "and he'd say, 'Oh, that's dumb.'" Evans decided after three weeks that Coppola was near a nervous breakdown and never knew whether the director would show up the following day. But Coppola got rid of the key detractors, came to an understanding with the cinematographer-for whom he still has high professional regard-and kept showing up. "I had to hang in," he says. "Everything was at stake...
...that there has been no real secondary market for them. An investor who began to fear that he had guessed wrongly about stock trends, or who wanted to take a potential profit quickly and move on to some other deal, would have a very difficult time trying to get rid of his option. If the Chicago Board of Trade is indeed able to provide a daily market for stock options, big volume traders like mutual funds, pension funds and insurance company portfolio managers are expected to be its major customers...
They are not yet taking out ads, but some airline executives are earnestly trying to get rid of a number of their jumbo jets. In an industry that is just beginning to turn the corner to profitability, the big bird has become something of an albatross...