Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Prisoners have long earned their daily bread. In the 19th century, convicts at Sing Sing worked as blacksmiths and carpenters. More recently, inmates have manufactured license plates and toiled on chain gangs performing road repairs. Now, though, increasing numbers of prisoners are taking on a more refined line of work: answering telephone inquiries for corporate and government employers...
Where callous cows sing dirty ditties...
...performance of "No Time At All," Pippin's requisite show-stopper, has the audience literally singing right along with him. And even those who've never heard the music before can participate; the words to the chorus are in the program. Can you sing "It's time to start livin'," boys and girls...
...experimental treatment with perhaps fewer ill effects involves a synthetic substance called nafarelin, similar to gonadotropin-relea sing hormone. Normally GnRH is released in bursts by the hypothalamus gland, eventually triggering the process of ovulation. But "if the GnRH stimulation is given continuously instead of in pulses," explains Dr. Robert Jaffe of the University of California, San Francisco, "the whole (ovulatory) system shuts off," and the endometrial implants "virtually melt away...
...SIXTEEN DANCERS enter into the wide open clearing formed by the audience seated on the floor who become, like the chorus in classic epic, the inclusive margins of the ritualized performance. Throughout the evening, which proceeds largely in the fashion of oral narrative, the audience is incited to sing, cheer, lament, and otherwise express on cue their sympathies for the story being "made" in their midst. At the end, following the shamanistic purging performed by the women's "Dance of Life," the shamans invite members of the audience to join in the final frenzied clamor of the nan-jang...