Word: sensationalization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"Carter!" they chanted "Carter! Carter! Carter!" For a moment at least, the President last week heard Americans cheer themselves hoarse, a heady sensation he had not enjoyed in many months. Knowing all too well how desperately he needed a lift, Jimmy Carter had chosen his audience well: the convention in...
The actual physical examination begins even before the patient crawls onto the examining table. Says Columbia's Keim: "I like to watch the patient undress, see how he moves, sits, stands." The doctor may ask the patient to perform various exercises -walking on heels and tiptoes, bending from the...
In desperation, such patients are turning increasingly to the growing number of pain clinics across the country. Because of the psychological component of pain, these centers include psychiatrists, counselors and social workers in multidisciplinary medical teams. Back pain can account for half or more of their patient loads. Their principal...
Government spokesmen profess pleasure with things as they are. So does Archbishop Nikodim, 59, who is substituting for the ailing Metropolitan Yuvenali as foreign affairs director of the church. "In the West, for some reason, thousands of Orthodox priests in Russia are considered nearly as traitors, and two or three...
Some hugely successful novels have spawned a curious mass-market samizdat that differs sharply from the writings of dissidents. The newest underground hit is At the Last Frontier, a trashy historical novel by Valentin Pikul about Grigori Rasputin, the sexy, self-styled holy man who held the Russian imperial family...