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...Esquire, and Harper’s are effectively snide in calling Kerouac and Ginsberg “immature.” Indeed they are; but, in the same sense, American poetry (outside of S.F.) appears to be senile—the aridity of a sterile Greenwich Village, or the ingrown complexity of form without substance, of structure without inspiration, which characterizes the overwhelmingly academic literature of America’s intelligentsia...

Author: By John D. Leonard | Title: Free Beer and Poetry | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

...Menscience Androceuticals Sporting understated pharmaceutical-like packaging, Menscience offers a foamless shave formula that helps treat ingrown facial hairs, and an ultralight eye rescue cream that combats dark circles from tiredness. Our male testers liked this line, as it featured a lightweight texture, was fragrance free and caused no skin irritation. www.menscience.com; www.skinstore.co.uk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's a Guy Thing | 3/7/2007 | See Source »

...results over time are not glamorous. According to Dr. Carol Frey, an orthopedic surgeon in Manhattan Beach, Calif., 76% of American women suffer from foot deformities or afflictions such as bunions, hammertoes, pinched nerves, calluses and ingrown toenails as a result of wearing inappropriate shoes. More than 50% of U.S. women are limping around with a bunion--a bony bump at the joint of the big toe. Compare that with a rate of less than 10% for men and 5% among unshod populations like Fiji Islanders. "There's nothing wrong with the human foot," says Frey. "It does not need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BODY & MIND: Healthy Heels | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

...prove need is the approval, written or oral, of a friendly doctor? And when not just patients with AIDS, cancer and multiple sclerosis are clamoring for the drug but also people with backaches, stress and drinking problems? One arrested planter told sheriff's deputies he was suffering from an ingrown toenail, an excuse that did not impress them. Lucy Mae Tuck, a volunteer who edits the newsletter at the Humboldt Cannabis Center, a co-op that grows the drug for medicinal use, has a physician's certificate to treat her hot flashes with the weed. Since Prop. 215 passed more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here's My Marijuana Card, Officer | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...wife Phyllis, you only rarely get the sense that she was actually posing.) Every painter has favorite shapes and gestures, which, unless they encounter some resistance, can turn into mannerisms. Diebenkorn's style certainly grew some mannerisms, but drawing--the continuous friction against obdurate motifs--prevented them from getting ingrown, turning into tics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: GOD IS IN THE VECTORS | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

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