Word: souped
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...gallero. The fights, a frenzied flurry of flapping and fluttering, last 15 minutes, or until one of the birds dies in the ring. The winners - pecked, plucked and bloody - are usually allowed to recuperate for several weeks before training for another fight. The losers get turned into to soup to cure Monday hangovers...
...arrival of new drugs for depression and psychosis in the early 1990s was a setback for psychotherapy, which some doctors began to portray as a chicken-soup remedy compared to the magic bullets they believed they now had. But in recent years, research has revealed the drugs' limitations and led to calls for a rethinking of the drug-based approach to treating depression. Aside from lifestyle changes, the only alternative for sufferers is some form of psychotherapy, whose quality could be lifted, experts say, if governments required people calling themselves psychotherapists to meet certain standards. Some of Freud's ideas...
...self-help books.Self-help books were once fair game for public mockery. The perception was that they were primarily read by the audience you imagine watching Lifetime Original Movies—lonely, middle-aged women with cellulite and cats. But last week, when I spotted “Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul” nestled between two Tolstoys on the bookshelf of a seemingly normal friend, it hit me.At some point in recent years, self-help books have become mainstream. In fact, a large proportion of students at Harvard have presumably read at least one, since the syllabus...
...original comic panel it draws on is not considered art," he told TIME's Jeanne McDowell for a 2005 story we did on the exhibition. "I hate that whole attitude and way of looking at this stuff. Lichtenstein did for comics what Warhol did for Campbell's Soup - it had nothing to do with comics. It had to do with exploiting the form without any of the content...
...other areas of public life (like Hollywood), and if it's not spin, it's a gaffe. Journalists enjoy gaffes as a slight taste of human reality at the banquet of artifice where they sup. They also enjoy the power of the gaffe to generate stories. Like stone soup, a gaffe can provide days of nourishment from almost nothing. A gaffe offers more stages of grief than Elisabeth K?bler-Ross: denial, quibbling, refusal to apologize, qualified apology, slavish apology...