Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frontiersman's traditional snake bite remedy came in a bottle, and was shown, years ago, to be bad medicine. Alcohol increases the blood flow in the extremities and thus helps to spread the poison. Now a Florida surgeon suggests that the currently fashionable technique, combining a tourniquet with crosswise incisions and sucking out the venom, may not be much better. His recommendation: cut out a piece of flesh at the bite site...
Shimmering Ancestor. Their song bag includes a wealth of old ballads, reels, ditties, jigs and riddle songs, many of which Beers learned at the knee of his grandfather-onetime champion fiddler of North Freedom, Wis.-who gave him his "concert grand" fiddle with a snake rattle inside ("to make it sound good"). In one demonstration song, Beers carves a whistle out of a twig and then plays a tweeting lullaby; in other numbers, Evelyne beats out a counter rhythm on the fiddle strings with spears of buffalo grass or "fiddlesticks." Many of the songs reflect the lore and rough-hewn...
GUMMIDGE: Not at all. You can now use it even when addressing preschoolers. In his book Translations from the English, Robert Paul Smith offers these samples: "He shows a real ability in plastic conception." That means he can make a snake out of clay. "He's rather slow in group integration and reacts negatively to aggressive stimulus." He cries easily. And "He does seem to have developed late in large-muscle control." He falls on his head frequently...
...anti-hero is a successful pop photographer, and the first third of the film simply follows the little snake as he glides around London taking pictures of naked old men and of models who might as well be. Among the models is Vogue's Verushka, whom he woos with his camera until they both collapse in erotic exhaustion. On a side trip to Woolwich, he happens to notice a pretty little park where a handsome couple is amorously straying. Nothing better to do, so he follows them, shooting on the sly, till the girl (Vanessa Redgrave) catches...
...Outwardly, Jordan's frontier with Israel seemed calm enough. Gunfire along the border had died away. In Jordan's frontier towns of Nablus, Hebron and Ramallah, old men puffed their snake-stemmed hookahs outside coffeehouses, and traffic beeped its way back to normal. But beneath the surface, tensions were tight. "The whole place," said one of King Hussein's former Cabinet ministers, "is ready to blow...