Word: warts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...developed between them an immense repertory of malice, of silences and nuance. And surely, as in this play's descendant, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, the couple would know precisely where to strike to draw blood. As it is, Alice simply calls Edward a "miserable old wart hog" and a "fiend," as if she had long since despaired of finding anything more imaginative to say. The Dance, at last, is little more than a gray and rather disagreeable marathon...
...Pinafore is the gimmickry. During the Lord Admiral's attempt to woo Josephine, director Lindsay Davis inserts some unnecessary slapstick which detracts from the Gilbert humor. Dick Deadeye (Phillip Baas) does not wear the usual eyepatch but sports instead a "dead eye" which, from the balcony, looks like a wart. He is also equipped with a hook for a left hand...
...unexpected wart, it quickly developed, was a constitutional technicality that seems to make Saxbe ineligible for the office until special legislation is passed by Congress, and possibly not even then. Since Saxbe was a member of Congress in 1969-when legislators voted to raise Cabinet salaries from $35,000 to $60,000 annually-he is forbidden by Article 1, Section 6 of the Constitution to hold a Cabinet post until his Senate term expires next year. However, Acting Attorney General Robert Bork claimed that Congress could enable Saxbe to take his new job by passing "remedial" legislation, probably a bill...
...commentator said, Hunt Hall is "a thumb in the eye" of the Yard, then Memorial Hall must be the wart on its nose...
...Medicine has known for years that a virus of the papova group causes warts, horny skin growths that can develop-and disappear-rapidly. Yet doctors cannot agree upon the proper cure. Some recommend surgery, cautery with an electric needle, localized freezing, or acid to burn away the tissue; a few even fall back on folk remedies like touching warts with a copper penny or with a slice of raw potato. Now a group of Massachusetts General Hospital physicians has reported in the Archives of General Psychiatry that warts can also be removed by hypnosis. The researchers reached this conclusion after...