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Word: sexed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expecting miracles, particularly in battling cocaine addiction. Unlike heroin, which acts on the pain-killing endorphin system alone, cocaine engages three separate neurotransmitter systems: those based on dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine. Taken together, these networks govern the human ability to experience pleasure, from watching a sunrise to having sex. Blocking all these pleasure centers -- as methadone blocks the heroin high -- would literally take the joy out of life, says Yale's Kosten. "We'd turn out automatons." Addicts trying to quit cocaine go through a stage called anhedonia, a sort of spiritless limbo that typically drives the user to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Can Drugs Cure Drug Addiction? | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

BOSTON--In what was believed to be the first case of its kind, a U.S. appeals court upheld a ruling that Boston University must pay $215,000 in damages and grant tenure to a female professor who sued the university for sex discrimination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.U. Loses in Sex Bias Ruling | 12/9/1989 | See Source »

Wilson's script concerns itself with big themes like art, death, sex and love, and it addresses them in the lower Manhattan apartment of Anna (Nell Benjamin) and her friend Larry (Alan Krischer...

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: Probable Rug Burns | 12/8/1989 | See Source »

...They are left to deal with personal grief and to grapple with the tragedy of the death of a talented artist. It becomes an even more difficult task when Robby's angry, crass brother Pale (Brian Gaspardo), continually crashes their apartment, disrupts their life and finds comfort in having sex with Anna...

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: Probable Rug Burns | 12/8/1989 | See Source »

...characters are suffering, too. Especially Anna. She dances, yet her studio apartment is carpeted. She probably has horrible rug burns. And she has unbearably tacky ballet posters hanging in her apartment that she has to look at every day. She has painfully boring sex with both her lovers. And she clearly lives with the psychological stress of having ESP--she always reaches to answer the phone before it actually rings...

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: Probable Rug Burns | 12/8/1989 | See Source »

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