Word: scars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...variety of intimate matters now bandied about is without apparent limits. On talk shows like Phil Donahue's, ordinary people regularly recount stories of emotional disturbance, marital discord, incest. Men chat about their vasectomies, women about their hysterectomies. The spectacle of Lyndon B. Johnson flashing his surgical scar to the world, so vulgar at the time, seems comparatively genteel in retrospect...
...miles away, suffered temporary discomfort: dry and itchy noses, throats and eyes. Reported a resident of Missoula: "I feel like someone popped my eyeballs out and rolled them around in a sandbox." But most of the ash particles were too large to lodge in human lungs and permanently scar them. Moreover, the dust did not stay in the air long enough to cause silicosis, which is a lung disease that miners, masonry workers, sandblasters and toilers in similar occupations get from breathing dust-laden air over long periods of time...
...from two to seven times more susceptible to such problems than women who do not employ them. This is a special concern for those who have never been pregnant. The warning signals include abdominal pain, fever, severe menstrual cramps, abnormal bleeding and vaginal discharges. Left unchecked, such infections can scar and block the fallopian tubes, where the union of egg and sperm takes place, and sometimes lead to a hysterectomy. The I.U.D., when it fails, has also been suspected of causing ectopic pregnancies, in which the fetus grows outside the uterus. But recent studies indicate that the devices actually seem...
Cruising is unsatisfying as drama and disturbing as a sexual statement. Several brilliant moments of cinematic tension get lost in a rush of misguided, Puritan moralism. Pacino's shave in his final sequence connotes the removal of Cain's permanent scar or Hester Prynne's letter, as if homosexuality were a blight on American society that must be removed through violence. Friedkin claims Cruising "is not an indictment of the homosexual community," yet tacked-on words cannot temper his dangerously powerful images. There are real demons to exorcise--beyond Christopher...
...economic and military aid, and had criticized the execution last April of former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Such actions, complained the government-owned Pakistan Times, "amounted almost to interference in our internal affairs." Said a State Department official of the embassy attack: "That left a scar that hasn't really healed...