Word: sinusitis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Walter S. McIlhenny, 74, patriarch of a deep-rooted Louisiana clan and chairman of the family-owned McIlhenny Co., sole producers of that throat- searing, sinus-clearing concoction of fermented hot peppers, vinegar and salt invented in 1848 and first marketed in 1868 by his grandfather and named Tabasco; after a stroke; in Lafayette...
...programs they buy. Sinus Software of Sacramento, Calif., maker of the hit Type Attack, in 1983 issued three or four new games every month. This year, however, it will not introduce a new one until next month, and since October it has laid off 15 of its 35-member staff...
...predecessor, the Met's 1981 exhibition of his studies of landscape and water and plants (lent, like this one, from the Royal Library at Windsor Castle), was more open to the nonspecialist, if only because more people have mused on water currents or leaves than on the maxillary sinus or the epigastric veins of the abdomen. Nevertheless, anything by Leonardo, especially a group of studies as important in his work as this, is bound to be an object of fascination...
...owner and wearer of more than 40 different hats, I enjoyed your Essay "In Praise of Serious Hats" [April 25]. I have a special reason for using one. Years ago my doctor recommended that I wear a hat to reduce sinus trouble because heat rises and keeps your head warm...
They just look funny. Jack Lemmon: personification of the Excedrin headache, his sinus cavities almost visible, the corners of his mouth wrenched in a clown's grimace as the voice machine-guns a blast of staccato croaks. Walter Matthau: the epitome of slob insouciance, a flophouse face and shaggy-dog body, wearing clothes like rumpled bed sheets, maneuvering across a room like a hunchback tiptoeing on roller skates. To see either one is to smile; to see them together, in The Fortune Cookie or The Odd Couple or here, working variations on the Mutt-and-Jeff theme...