Word: bathing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Study in man is vastly complicated by the fact that the human brain contains an estimated 10 billion nerve cells called neurons, and another 100 billion of a second type called glial cells. The fluid bath in which they are suspended is an important element in their electrochemical interactions. Moreover, said Sweden's Dr. Holger Hydén, one big neuron may have on its surface as many as 10,000 points of contact (synaptic knobs) with other neurons (see chart). But by means of exquisitely delicate instrumentation and an electron microscope, Dr. Hydén has discovered that...
...film changes bosses in mid-screen and Will Penny turns standard after all: Civilized Woman Tames Frontier Man. The formula female (prettily played by Joan Hackett) has a formula little boy, and the threesome winsomely provide the formula scenes-the nursing-his-wounds idyl, the making-him-take-a-bath episode, the surrogate father bit. It is an immense relief when Donald Pleasence turns up as the maniac bad guy with an interest in rape and torture...
...anyone hasn't heard of The Pajama Game--like he's been simmering in a bubble bath since Douglas MacArthur flew home--it should be noted that, by virtue of its terribly attractive songs and its breathtakingly blemishless book, the show ranks rather high in its chosen category. For reasons already labored, and because of a virtuoso turn on the part of Peter Larson, who came late to the job of providing an orchestra, the production ranks almost equally high...
...grandparents' 90-acre farm ten miles away where John's father, Wesley, now 68 supported the five of them on his junior-high-school math teacher's pay of $1,740 a year. That sum did not provide for indoor plumbing, and John and his father bathed at school. It was not until twelve years ago that water was brought into the two-bedroom farmhouse. "Every time I take a bath I can't believe it " says Wesley Updike...
...second act consists of the Merchant's Tale (in which Wilfrid Bram-bell regularly stops the show with a prenuptial bossanova in a nightshirt), followed by the Wife of Bath's moral story of the overamorous Knight and the witch who turns into a beautiful young girl when she is convinced that he really loves...