Word: swabbing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Four showgirls stride onto the Radio City Music Hall stage to play a fanfare. It is fitting that one of the strumpets with trumpets is chewing gum, for she and her sisters are introducing a supremely brassy babe. Crescendo! Curtain! Giant cotton-swab clouds! And there, radiant on a throne, sits the Arch Angel of Pop and Schlock. The message is clear: Bette Midler has lived up to her self-promotion. She is divine...
...inventor who has patented a safer, blunt-end type of ear-cleaning cotton swab says he got the idea from Hammer's flattop. Next: a feather duster that looks like Don King...
...indications that some doctors and hospitals may be lax in protecting patients against exposure to the AIDS virus. Chicago's Illinois Masonic Medical Center has temporarily closed its adult clinic following two alarming incidents. In April a physician taking a Pap smear from a woman unwittingly used a swab that had previously been used to take a culture from an HIV-positive patient. The doctor thought the testing kit, which had been left out unlabeled on a table in the hallway, had been prepared for his use. Just weeks later, two toddlers who had accompanied a woman into a clinic...
...example, inhibited and uninhibited children react differently when confronted with plastic keys, a cotton swab dipped in alcohol or a tape of a woman's voice saying nonsense syllables, Kagan said...