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...widespread custom, called cqo gio (Vietnamese for "scratch the wind"), is used for everything from colds to convulsions. A medicated oil or ointment is rubbed into the skin, which is then firmly stroked with a coin, comb or spoon until contusions appear. The practice seems harmless, says Pediatrician Gentry Yeatman of the Tacoma, Wash., Madigan Army Medical Center, who became familiar with the massage technique during a 1975 stint at a refugee camp in Indiantown Gap, Pa. In a report published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Yeatman warns that most American physicians are unfamiliar with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Folk Remedy | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...close, the process of generational amnesia and painful relearning seems wasteful; it leaves the countryside strewn with all kinds of debris - dead fathers surrounded by the or phan parricides who exuberantly did them in but do not even know yet how to use a spoon. However, as Albert Einstein once observed, "God is subtle, but he is not malicious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Endless Rediscovery of the Wheel | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

...Bassist Tina Weymouth and Drummer Chris Frantz--met in art school. They're joined on this album by Adrian Belew, Jose Rossy, Jon Hassel, Nona Hendryx and the omnipresent Eno. Robert Palmer is among the many given credit for percussion but he probably just hit a bottle with a spoon on one song...

Author: By Martin B. Schwimmer, | Title: Beating Heads | 11/26/1980 | See Source »

...sensation to be searching for comic relief in a comedy. But certain smoggy patches of Lunch Hour do tend to induce that quest. Possibly the two funniest moments in Act I are Gilda Radner sparring with a spilled pot of coffee and juggling a scalding-hot spoon, and Sam Waterston watching the page proofs of his upcoming book unreel inexorably into a goldfish tank. All of which goes to prove that Director Mike Nichols is still a playwright's best friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Sin and Smog | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

There are close to 50 songs all together, clustered in sections that form a kind of rudimentary sociocultural chronicle. In "Arrivals," a Jewish immigrant (Jerry Zaks) just off the boat sings The Yankee Doodle Boy with an accent you could ladle with a chicken soup spoon. Later, as a fully assimilated show-biz tintype, he repeats the same number á la George M. Cohan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Quartet | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

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