Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tatum learned to smoke for the role, but vows "I'm not going to smoke in real life-Humphrey Bogart died from it." Harder than smoking was a scene where she had to go up to a candy counter and say, "Can I have some Juicy Fruit gum, please?" She had flu, was "full of penicillin, and my mind was spinning." Bogdanovich decided he wanted her to ask for Dentyne. "I told him, 'You can't do that. I'm sick. I've learned my lines and I can't do it over...
...airport shortly before sunset on Thursday. Two Hunter jet fighter-bombers of the Lebanese air force made 14 low-level sweeps over the camp. It was the first time that Arab planes had bombed a Palestinian refugee camp. President Franjieh doubtless felt that the end justified his means. As smoke from the rockets rose over the camp, the ground fighting abruptly died down, not only in the camp area but, seemingly by coincidence, elsewhere as well. Soon after, another ceasefire agreement was reached...
...naughty supposition is that in some unspecified way, women have taken over power in the U.S., accomplishing a wholesale reversal of sex roles. Women wear trousers, smoke pipes and talk tough; men wear bras (after silicone injections), makeup and pantyhose and mince about in a way that is usually thought of as faggish. Women are executives, men are secretaries. Babies are hatched in laboratories; the standard sex act does not bear repeating. But men who cannot achieve ecstasy in this way are lectured gravely by female psychiatrists...
...assistant, Elisabeth Sedlmayr, divided a volunteer group of 354 heavy smokers into three teams, each of which tried a different "cure." One team was treated with psychotherapy to learn the emotional causes of their habit; the second was given a drug that is supposed to curb the urge to smoke; for the third group, the only treatment was instruction in how to apply the rules...
...weeks, 20% of the psychotherapy group and 30% of the drug group had kicked the habit completely or had cut down to ten or fewer cigarettes a day. By contrast, 60% of the rule followers had reached their goal. Presumably, if they want to learn to smoke again, they must now work their way backward from Rule...