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...would require an act of Congress. "No one is prepared to give the industry blanket immunity," says Matthew Myers, executive vice president of the National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids and a participant in the talks. Moreover, Myers adds, "this is a movie in mid-plot." The plot will thicken as negotiations continue this week...
Every so often in the charmed life of Bill Clinton, when things have been going a little too smoothly for a little too long, the fates decide to thicken the plot. The Oxford-bound scholar comes up 1-A in the draft, the boy Governor gets tossed out by Arkansas voters, the earnest presidential candidate morphs into a skirt-chasing tabloid cartoon--and Clinton has to run harder and smarter to catch up with his dreams. Which is why some of the President's closest advisers have been anxiously peering beyond his gaudy poll numbers to the next, and inevitable...
Codrescu pours on the kinks and Gothic whoopee. If he keeps it up, he could become as rich as Anne Rice. The only thing that may hold him back is his attempt to thicken his plot with serious themes. Pleating the 16th century with the 20th, Codrescu is nervously alert for recurrent patterns of evil and its handmaiden, absolute authority. At the extreme is the countess: "She would ask them to bring her the mirror on the surface of a lake. She would ask them to open their chests and give her their hearts. She would ask them to make...
...Sheppard says that if novelist and sometime National Public Radio commentator Andrei Codrescu continues with the kinks and Gothic whoopee of his new book (Simon & Schuster; 347 pages; $23), he could become as rich as Anne Rice. The only thing that may hold him back is his attempt to thicken his plot with serious themes. The story centers on Elizabeth Bathory, a real life 16th century Hungarian tyrant alleged to have killed 650 girls in the belief that bathing in their blood would preserve her youth and beauty. Codrescu pleats the 16th and 20th centuries together address his real concerns...
Progesterone pills can be particularly hard to tolerate. Progestin is always prescribed along with estrogen for women with an intact uterus. While estrogen prompts the uterine lining to thicken, progestin signals it to stop growing and slough off; this artificial menstrual cycle seems to prevent endometrial cancer. But progestin often causes cramps, irritability and other PMS-like problems. In her 1991 book on menopause, The Silent Passage, Gail Sheehy tells how estrogen highs and progestin lows made her feel as though her body was "at war with itself for half of every month...