Word: tonics
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...sure, the foreign policy significance of this trip is not large. Most of the stops are more ceremonial than substantive. The more important overseas trip comes next month, when Clinton attends the G-7 economic summit in Naples. But just preparing for the trip has been a tonic for Clinton. Aides admit that until recently he focused on overseas problems only as they arose; for the past month or so, he has had special foreign policy bull sessions on Thursday or Friday to anticipate problems before they crop up. And he has immersed himself with characteristic intensity in preparing...
...which the full-reach, broad-brush speed of the paint becomes a headlong road movie, analogous to Jack Kerouac's writing (though without its hectoring blither) or the photographs of De Kooning's friend Robert Frank. See America now! And you do -- in abstraction; you feel its rush and tonic vitality in the toppling blue strokes of Ruth's Zowie, 1957, which echo Franz Kline's big-girder structures but move them into a pastoral context...
...must assume) winning the NCAA title at the end of the year is Harvard's main goal, then losing two nights ago might have been just the tonic to keep its charge alive. Why allow any feelings of contentedness to creep into a mindset focused on the future...
Start that toast with 502.5 fluid ounces of ginseng tonic, or make your own with $1,000 worth of the root itself: depending on the type you buy, one grand gets you 10 pounds of American white ginseng root, or 8.5 pounds of American red ginseng root, or five pounds of Chinese ginseng kivin root at Harnett's, Church and Brattle Streets...
...Louisville, needs polishing. Most scenes are cinematically brief, but the scene changes are long and noisy. Both acts end with poignant, diminuendo remarks that plainly do not strike audiences as a climax, so applause, although sustained, is painfully slow in coming. While Anne Pitoniak's Du is a tonic blend of folksy approachability and rigid religion, Julie Boyd's Keely seems far better educated and statelier than the beer-loving bar veteran and blue-collar knockabout sketched in the text...