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...When I read about the hospitalizations, my eyes widened," says Dallek. "We never knew about this." Another revelation was the sheer quantity of medications Kennedy took daily during his presidency. "Steroids for his Addison's disease," Dallek writes, "pain-killers for his back, antispasmodics for his colitis, antibiotics for urinary-tract infections, antihistamines for allergies and, on at least one occasion, an antipsychotic (though only for two days) for a severe mood change that Jackie Kennedy believed had been brought on by the antihistamines." Johnny, we hardly knew...
Still, McDyer says she doesn’t need special equipment for the climb besides oxygen—just sheer stamina...
...President, who has a country to run and a reputation to protect and who prefers to go to sleep in his own bed, usually before 10 p.m., to plunge from state to state as though his own survival depended on it, when in fact the opposite is true? The sheer nerve of the White House strategy left even enemies in awe. "What they did was risky as hell," marvels Tony Coelho, a veteran operative who served as chairman of Al Gore's 2000 campaign. "They rolled the dice, they won, and now Bush has a huge mandate...
...established product to help peddle a new one. There is a certain logic to the notion that if Kleeneze is a good laundry detergent, then a dishwasher detergent named Kleeneze will be good too. But the power of brand extension operates more on a subrational level of sheer name recognition. The notion that Jones Jr. will make a good Senator because Jones Sr. did is less a rational assumption than a primitive instinct...
...show’s concept may not always hold water, but the sheer vivacity of these dancers will quickly take the audience’s mind off such trivial matters. In rehearsals, the energy of this group overflows into giggle-fests every few minutes. Much of the fault belongs to the directors, who offer such advice as “Your arms should be shimmying, but your legs are doing hip-hop” and “Try to get a look like, ‘Oh, I’m cute’ and not like...