Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book is full of such leaps from the cosmos to suburbia and back again. Watterson's watercolor treatment of Calvin's alternate realities is striking in the Sunday comics sections of America, but, unfortunately, Yukon Ho! has no color. Instead of a blue insect head, we get a shade of grey. Instead of a rainbow of colored clothes pouncing on Calvin one morning, we see a few black and white objects flying at him. The strips are still funny, but they lose much of their artistry. No comic strip in the last 20 years has used color so well...
After a "terribly painful and lonely period" following Michael Dukakis' loss in last November's presidential election, Kitty, 52, checked into a Rhode Island clinic in early February for treatment of a drinking problem. She refused to blame the defeat for her troubles. "Any crisis could have led to the drinking," she said. "The campaign was a very positive experience for me. The only thing that happened wrong was that we lost." She can only hope her next campaign turns out better...
...listen carefully. Sewage and wetlands wildlife, like each other when the sewage is free of industrial metals, Arcata has found. Since this is the case in most small and midsize American cities, combining them is technically easy. The swamp substitutes for some of the high-cost stages of sewage treatment. But take caution from weary Arcatans: skip the politics. The city's sewage saga sounds more like Gilbert and Sullivan than John Muir's diaries...
...because county officials were having problems with Perkins, he was taken instead to Cambridge City Hospital for immediate treatment, according to Assistant District Attorney Adrienne Lynch...
...believe me, a fad or some passing fancy." Of course, this was before Tower began to crumble and it was discovered that Secretary of State James Baker owned an estimated $2.9 million worth of Chemical Bank stock while he was Treasury Secretary with policymaking influence over the treatment of the bank's shaky Third World loans. These days the President sounds less like a patrician reformer as he muses aloud, "I hope I haven't created something that just carries things...