Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stood him in good stead, but ultimately the novel is little more than a thriller. Crichton is an old hand at those. Not yet 30, he's already had several fair-to-middling successes under a variety of pen names as well as his 1969 best-seller The Andromeda Strain. The Terminal Man shows the benefits of past experience: Only an old hand could think of a sign saying "DO NOT FEED OR MOLEST THE COMPUTER...
Most people lose some potassium when subjected to stress, which steps up the body's output of adrenal hormones and leads to increased elimination of the crucial salt. The astronauts, of course, go through heavy physical and emotional strain, and they face another problem as well. The weightlessness experienced in space causes the blood, which normally tends to pool in the lower extremities, to be distributed more evenly. The body senses this redistribution, reacts as if it were carrying excess fluids and attempts to redress matters by extra urination. That causes further potassium loss...
...Funny Thing (music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim) was first performed on Broadway ten years ago, and is right now enjoying a deleriously successful revival in New York. A light-hearted, bawdy affair, replete with slapstick routines and terrible puns, you know it works if you have to strain to hear the dialogue under the audience guffaws. The production at Leverett House is a mixed bag, but the book and the performances generate a lot of laughs...
...response to Farber's report PALC issued a 20-page position paper on March 20. The brief stated that Gulf's payments to Portugal eased the strain on Portugal's military budget and provided the Portuguese government with an important source of foreign exchange currency...
Gerdes's lyrics have the same personal quality of Dylan's and Smither's, but they are not as subtle nor as consistently poetical. They are all good, but one gets the feeling he could have frequently said as much with considerably less strain. "Peas Porridge Hot" and "Real as Rain" are mellow, light songs in which Gerdes relaxes, sings smoothly, and plays his guitar well. "Time Will Let You In" and "Gardenia Lady" are also fine songs, which express with moving melancholy the dilemma of people caught in time...