Word: valium
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Have you ever been to a Valium picnic? Or been guilty of scoodling? Or yearned for warm fuzzies? If those terms are totally bewildering, you may want to take a crash course in "biz speak," the increasingly colorful, and sometimes off-color, language of the business world. The vivid vocabulary that bounces around corporate corridors has been collected and codified by Journalist Rachel S. Epstein and Nina Liebman, an industrial-development specialist for the New York State department of commerce, in their new book Biz Speak: A Dictionary of Business Terms, Slang and Jargon (Franklin Watts; $17.95). This handy compendium...
John Lurie is back from Paradise as the lowgrade lowlife Jack, a man so cool he is almost dead. Singer Tom Waites gives an outstanding film debut as the alcoholic Zack, a washed out Wolfman Jack with a Valium temperment. Robertc Benigni starts out as a Chico Marx knock-off with a fondness for "famous American poet Bob Frost," but his character grows into the most capable and sympathetic of the trio, winning the hearts of both the audience and the beautiful Nicoletta (Nicoletta Braschi...
...Marge was saying just before her most recent annual recital. "He won't be playing tonight. He has a lovely touch -- such big hands -- but an audience just destroys him." His only time on the stage, this fellow fell apart. "He stayed here all day practicing. He had a Valium. Then he called the doctor. Then he had three more Valium and two double shots." As show time neared, this musician stepped out the kitchen door to relieve himself. Marge had to stop the proceedings and find him and lead him into the parlor. He played Home on the Range...
...doctors also say their research tries to determine if drugs like valium are medically effective, or if patients just take them because they believe they work, one participant adds. "They tell us that 30 percent of hospitalized patients, when given a placebo instead of a sedative, will not notice the difference. It's all in the mind...
About a dozen manufacturers applied to produce the tranquilizer, but permission has so far been granted only to Zenith Laboratories, Mylan Laboratories and the Parke-Davis division of Warner-Lambert. Diazepam is expected to sell for up to 50% less than Valium. One hundred 5-mg tablets of the tranquilizer now cost around $25. Hoffmann-La Roche could lose 50% of its market share within three years. Says Zenith President James Leonard: "Consumers won't pay for a trademark. They are more interested in therapeutic value...