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Runkle also dated a couple of her clients. Her most serious friendship apparently had been with Johnny ("Fat Man") Campo, Pleasant Colony's trainer since March. They were vivid proof that opposites attract. Campo, 43, is a bombastic, street-wise man who rose to prominence by turning cheap horses into winners. Runkle was a slight, shy, sweetly bookish young woman given to quoting Her mann Hesse and Antoine de Saint-Exup...
Perhaps as a public service, the authors of the catalogue should offer the courses' nicknames as well as their real names to aid students with their selections. The nicknames not only describe the courses in more vivid and evocative terms, but they often also warn a student of the course's difficulty, or lack thereof. Lit and Arts C-14, "The Concept of the Hero in Hellenic Civilization," is lifeless compared to "Heros for Zeros;" "Abnormal Psychology" much less enticing than "Nuts and Sluts." Or Folklore and Mythology 107, "Literature of the Fantastic" vs. "FM107: Easy Listening." "Technology...
Industry conservatives point out that not all natural flavors are vivid enough (Mattus has failed so far to make a peach ice cream that he considers good, and Häagen-Dazs will not sell peach until he succeeds). Raising butterfat much above the 16% or 17% level can produce a greasy mix that for some reason resists flavoring. Staleness kills ice cream, and natural brands, such as Breyers or Häagen-Dazs, to some extent become unnatural when they are shipped across the country and stored for too many weeks. Ice crystals form and texture coarsens when...
...veterans ruefully suspect that they are being merely patronized as this season's cause ? the moral equivalent of snail darters or baby seals. But the vets' anger, emerging now less encumbered by the old shame of the loser, less haunted by the guilt of the war's uniquely vivid violence, has a new force. It contains a certain aggressive pride, expressed almost for the first time. The Viet Nam veterans may have been knocked off the tracks of their careers by two or three years; they may not have caught up yet with their peers, but they now insist...
...official publication of the American Psychiatric Association, is the definitive word on psychological disturbances. Viet Nam veterans (along with rape victims, among others) achieved some psychiatric status when DSM-III in 1980 officially defined their suffering as "posttraumatic stress disorder." In such distress, a person develops vivid symptoms after a psychologically traumatic event that is outside the range of usual human experience: he or she grows numb toward the external world, or else hyperalert, jumpy, insomniac; in nightmares the event that brought on the trauma is obsessively replayed...