Word: steams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that time he was at Boston Latin and wasn't getting beaten up as often. His political career was picking up steam, though he suffered from second thoughts for a while after John Kennedy was assassinated. "It was a real blow," DiCara said. "And then I started asking myself, 'Do you really want to get shot in the head...
...overestimated. Streets clean, dustless and odorless would eliminate a greater part of the nervousness, distraction and strain of modern metropolitan life." A few minutes' application of imagination and arithmetic, putting together the collective impact of cars, people, noise and exhausts (even if many cars were then powered by steam or electricity), would have shown that if the first part of his projection was right, the second could not possibly...
...prescription controls the Medical Letter advises: "Cough is a protective reflex; its severity should be diminished, but when there are copious secretions, it should not be suppressed by large doses of an antitussive agent." In most cases, the best remedy is an old-fashioned regimen of warm drinks and steam inhalation. Beyond that, "the familiar throat-tickling irritation can often be relieved by a candy drop...
Intensive Care. It all began, according to Harris, "more as a joke than anything else." After pondering the plight of hangover victims, Harris last year took over an abandoned medical laboratory next to his clinic. He installed a whirlpool bath and a steam cabinet and set up treatment rooms with such names as Heavenly Gates No. 1, Heavenly Gates No. 2, and Intensive Care. Then he hired a host of angels, or hostesses, and passed out cards. Hangover Heaven has been overcrowded ever since...
Smirking Androgynes. But the cast has little significance in The Music Lovers. Its arch tableaux, its unstable amalgam of life and art, make it a director's picture. In Women in Love, Ken Russell turned D.H. Lawrence into tinted steam. In The Music Lovers, he makes Tchaikovsky step to the Dance of the Sugarplum Inverts. Women are thoughtless children or carnivores. Men are smirking androgynes or long-faced straight men like Modeste, Peter's brother. A classic exchange has Peter saying, "Sixth Symphony, Opus 74. It's too cold." Replies Modeste: "I'll give...