Word: slimmed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University's Elisabeth Herz reports "intense guilt feelings" among women who get the disease, and hears again and again the feeling that they are unclean, dirty. "We're all looking for someone to love," says a New York woman, a freelance artist. "In this world our chances seem so slim anyway. Then you add herpes and you think, 'Why should anyone want me now?' " A doctor in Amityville, N.Y., says the same glum view has invaded the ranks of teenage herpes sufferers, who come into his office, cry and say, "No one will ever want to marry...
...Senior Editor Murray J. Gart and TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis, who also spent five hours interviewing and touring Baghdad with the man who is the object of Iran's attack: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. What Saddam Hussein had to say in TIME ("The chances for peace appear slim") turned out to be all too prophetic. Last Tuesday the Middle East's second war began. Gart and Brelis had traveled to Amman to interview King Hussein of Jordan, a close ally of Iraq. "The King likes and respects TIME, and knew both of us from previous meetings," says Brelis...
...Style. "A lot of the music I play is music the Mardi Gras Indians do. The guys that did this thing-Professor Longhair, Smiley Lewis, Guitar Slim-died off. There was nobody to keep it alive except the few guys who worked with them. Me, James Booker, Huey Piano Smith, Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint. I guess I would call my own style barrelhouse with blues and jazz mixtures. Rock 'n' roll...
...shoulder dislocation. To pre vent such accidents, the brothers have made their bodies into pieces of interlocking machinery: they play soccer together for agility, lift weights for strength and box together to heighten their sensitivity to each other's movements. Miguel is small, 5 ft. 7 in., and slim, as fliers tend to be. He weighs only 132 Ibs. and has an almost invisible 26-in. waist. "I think he was born to fly," says Juan. "He is very thin, and yet very, very powerful." Juan, also 5 ft. 7 in., is 33 lbs. heavier...
...Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini: The chances for peace appear slim because Khomeini is a politician, not a man of principle. As time goes by, he is beginning to reveal his superficiality. The more he talks, the more he makes himself a laughingstock. I wish the whole world would read his statements to form an impression of this shallow devil. The actions he has carried out do not indicate that he is a rational person...