Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Americans really happy in their relentless search for trim, regimented bodies? By most standards, they are the healthiest people in history, generally blessed with low cholesterol levels and normal electrocardiograms and blood counts. Yet they seem to have become so preoccupied with the quest for the elusive perfect physical condition, so haunted by the very possibility of sickness that they are unable to enjoy the benefits of good health. They love to go out in the sun, only to worry about skin cancer. They diet continually, but agonize about gaining weight. They exercise relentlessly, yet live in dread of heart...
...Huffington, Picasso was a destroyer and his art a negation of human values. Her evidence for this, however, is not drawn from the vast body of Picasso's works; it comes from the bitter testimony of the artist's former lovers and friends. His sex life, it would seem, was the expression of Picasso's true soul...
Yeah, n' th' actin' is pretty good, too; least I didn't catch any weak spots. But th' actin' don't seem t' matter too much anyways in a play where everyone is an archetype n' th' outcome is pretty much a foregone conclusion. Since everythin' is so inevitable, Curse of the Starving Class seems, like some other Shepard plays, t' be about one act too long. But Shepard's benighted poets have a certain eloquence, n' it's worth seein' the show just t' hear some of th' crazy things they...
...Convention is being held in New Orleans, while the Democrats are meeting this week in Atlanta. Bush, a nominal Texan, is stressing his Southern roots, while Dukakis has picked a Southerner, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, as his running mate. But the folks down here don't seem impressed...
Eaton says that the Museum's staff employs several members who are acquainted not only with science but, more importantly, with how to teach children about nature without making it seem as if they are being educated...