Word: washings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...embark upon an uncomfortable honeymoon train rides to visit their parents back East. The audience is served up a platter of cute little vignettes of the trip (most of which are featured in the previews). This fluff is washed down by the soundtrack's particularly insipid cocktail of tinkling piano chords that bob around like ice cubes in a wash of syrupy strings...
...Growing up in the tremendous wash of influence that we felt from the U.S. was difficult enough in a country that shares many of the same roots," he says. "I can well imagine the frustrations of feeling that overwhelming U.S. influence if your culture is a completely different...
Until the seizures, Clark, a 61-year-old retired dentist from Des Moines, Wash., had been making an impressive recovery. He joked with nurses, listened to tapes of music brought by his family (a favorite: Handel's Messiah sung by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir), and had even begun doing light exercises, sitting on the edge of his bed and swinging his legs for five-minute stretches...
...loved ones to enter into the Valley of Death with them, achieving a feeling of communion and identification. The reflected images in the highly polished stone increase the sense of unity with those being remembered. A memorial of any other design could not capture this sensation. Lucile Reade Snohomish, Wash...
Clark, a 61-year-old retired dentist from Des Moines, Wash., had just become the first human to receive a permanently implanted artificial heart. As he stirred to consciousness, Clark signaled Surgeon William DeVries that he was not in pain. For DeVries, 38, that satisfying moment was the culmination of the three years he had spent perfecting the technique that made the implant possible, and waiting for a patient who met the rigorous criteria established for implant candidates by the Food and Drug Administration. No wonder DeVries described the 7½-hr. operation as being "almost a spiritual experience...