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...soften the horror of this mind-fuck, society, has set up a new earth-mother of its own--television. The boy had often sat for hours at a time watching the images flicker before him. Here, indeed, was the goddess of the modern world; here was the new muse calling, the muse of totally destructive mindlessness. Hour after hour, he could stare at the grey screen, giving himself to it; and he was grateful to it because it made him stop thinking, it took over his mind, and gave him the peace of forgetfulness that he could not find...
...make up and therefore looks mousy. She buys brightly colored, constricting clothes." Blass' prescription is to dress her in Edwardian or Russian-inspired clothes. For daytime receptions, he would like to see Pat in a round-cornered cloth coat, with a Russian sable stole and hat to soften the lines of her face...
Will the donations soften Rooney's penny-pinching predilections? Rimstad doesn't think so. "I don't think it makes any difference one way or the other. He will damned well do as he pleases...
...might guess, directing Sligar and Son is not of the most enviable jobs on God's Earth. Still, Chris Sorensen could have done more to soften the blows the plawright's pen have wrought. With a heavy-handed script, heavy-handed performances aren't exactly the order of the day, yet that is primarily what we get from the largely freshman cast. Typical is Glenn Schewtz as the gum-chewing father. He has a strange way with a line, and Sorensen might have tried to correct the problem. Schewtz starts off slow and loud, then becomes fast and loud like...
...water, says Benson, is to stimulate the production of a hormone that causes calcium to dissolve out of the bones. The bloodstream is thus supplied with calcium that is no longer available from the calcium carbonate in ocean water-but the cost is high. The salmon's bones soften and virtually dissolve...