Word: tonic
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Positive thinking can surely be a powerful tonic, believes Dr. Jack Gorman, who is principal investigator for a National Institute of Mental Health study on the relationship between the course of the AIDS virus and the psyche. Preliminary evidence, he says, suggests that "depression and stress have bad effects on the immune system, while an optimistic and hopeful attitude has good effects." Other doctors continue to be skeptical about such thinking. "We all like to think that we have some power over what happens," says Dr. Richard Price, head of neurology at New York City's Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer...
...stock prices posed an immediate dilemma for the candidates: what to say and when to say it. Most Democrats erred on the side of caution, preferring not to be seen as gloating over the partisan advantage to be reaped from the economy's distress. The economic crisis seemed a tonic to Michael Dukakis; he projected a confidence rarely seen in the weeks since his campaign was rocked by disclosure of its role in leaking a tape that helped sabotage the candidacy of Joseph Biden. Dukakis' public words were a careful mixture of reassurance and assault, as he reserved his fire...
...days, a swizzle stick was aimed at a cherry or an olive and logically used to stir a gin and tonic. But in trendy bars today, as the price of some drinks hovers around five bucks, plastic swizzlers are almost as elaborate as the frozen daiquiris and blue margaritas they garnish. In Los Angeles, New York and Miami, the new adornments come shaped as inch-wide blue whales, 4-in.-long marlins or, even better, mermaids, pink elephants, giraffes, lizards and dinosaurs -- all to be fondled, chewed and traded...
...always teddibly English and utterly U (though Connery was a working- class Scot). To a nation that had seen its empire shrink in rancor, and its secret service embarrassed by the Burgess-Maclean and Profumo scandals, the notion of a British agent saving the free world was a tonic made in Fantasyland. The Beatles might have made Britain swinging for the young, but Bond was a travel-poster boy for the earmuff brigade. The Bond films even put a few theme songs (including Paul McCartney's Live and Let Die) on the pop charts. But their signal influence was closer...
...embattled President, the cheering crowds were a tonic. "Reagan, Reagan, Reagan!" chanted a chorus of young people in Port Washington, Wis., as bright balloons lofted over the Lake Michigan shoreline and a band blared campaign-style tunes. In nearby West Bend (pop. 21,000), some 30,000 people turned out to welcome the presidential motorcade. Buoyed by the lively response, Ronald Reagan scoffed at critics who claim he has lost his political punch. Said he: "I reject a potted-plant presidency...