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...often think about how I would tell a man dying of thirst that the only water he can find is poisoned. "Excuse me, sir, but I don't think you should drink that water. You see, it's poisoned, so you might do better to wait for something better to drink." Or, "Why don't we discuss your thirst, because you may not be as thirsty as you think, and anyway, you're not thirsty enough to drink that." Or, "No, wait. Don't drink that. The best thing for you, if you're really thirsty is this sand...

Author: By Peter Hardie, | Title: Black Roots, White Poison | 11/25/1975 | See Source »

Donna Francesca (Lucia Bose), the wife of the hospital director; Bianca (Marthe Keller), a nurse; and Carla (Barbara Bouchet), who is married to a member of Bonaccorsisi's staff. Other, lesser men may thirst for a glimpse of the world out side, but the asylum is sufficient for the doctor, who spends his time between rounds and beddings in the laboratory trying to isolate "the germ of schizophrenia." It is clear he has been inside the walls too long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Basket Case | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

...Encourage players to swallow salt tablets before practice. This promotes dehydration and increases thirst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Seven Ways to Kill a Football Player | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

...such collapses have occurred in recent years, turning a half-sq.-mi. area into a facsimile of the lunar landscape. No end to the problem appears to be at hand. As the New York Academy's journal, The Sciences, points out, "With man's seemingly unquenchable thirst for Earth's fluids, the land will continue to sink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Another Kind of Depression | 6/2/1975 | See Source »

...Whitmore, is the little bit where the President writes a letter to his daughter, then takes a 3? stamp out of his wallet and puts it on the envelope. "Very often the audience applauds," said Whitmore. "When you think about that, and I have, we have a hunger and thirst for simplicity and for people of integrity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Reliving the Good Old Days | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

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