Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hear one, no matter what David Kendall says. The supporting documents, meanwhile, will be aimed more at the groin. Much of material Starr left out of his report is, as Rep. Chris Cannon of Utah described it, "stuff that makes me blush, makes me sick to my stomach." Is America any keener to see it yet? Not according to a CNN/TIME poll released Friday, in which 67 percent said it was a bad idea to broadcast Clinton's video testimony. Considering the ugly mood on the Hill right now, however, that's one majority that won't matter...
...minimum, Asians expected Japan to contribute by setting its own economic house in order. So far, it hasn't. Japan's leaders still show no stomach for revamping their financial system and slashing regulations that coddle business. No one has shown the interest or strength to break the money links between inefficient industries and the ruling party. Party politics and bureaucratic inertia ground down the reformist plans of the last Prime Minister, and he has been replaced by a cookie-cutter party man with what a Tokyo commentator called "all the pizazz of cold pizza...
...slices and still have a quarter left for the pinball machine. Gone are the days when choosing two slices at Tommy's instead of two sicilians at 'Noch's could be justified by the extra change we'd have in our pockets (the latter, which Dartboard's stomach finds more satisfying, now costs only 40 cents more...
...once it gets into the bloodstream, the body can convert small amounts of it into testosterone, which does indeed build lean-muscle mass and boost the sex drive of both men and women. The trick is getting it into the bloodstream. First it has to get past the stomach and intestines, which break down a lot of androstenedione, rendering it ineffective. Some manufacturers are experimenting with ways to stabilize the steroid so it won't be so easily destroyed during digestion. Most users attempt to get around this little snag by taking more pills. And there are other supplements available...
Also, it has confirmed my suspicion that as much as I like a limited scandal now and then, I may not have the stomach for all-out scandal. The last scandal I enjoyed without qualification was the one triggered by the revelation that a writer named Clifford Irving was about to publish a book based on extensive interviews with Howard Hughes--a moneybags so maniacally reclusive that he made Thomas Pynchon seem like William Ginsburg. Irving, of course, had dreamed it all up, presumably figuring that a man reclusive enough to make his words particularly valuable would be too reclusive...