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Lurking Spies. Outrage became an ecological crusade when some of the people who were exposed to the spray began to have odd complaints. Mrs. Willard Shoecraft, about 50, suffered chest pains, shortness of breath, repeated vaginal bleeding and numbness of her hands and legs. Robert McCray, 33, had some of the same symptoms; his infant son nearly died. At least half a dozen other families experienced stomach upsets after the spraying. Robert McKusick, 39, says that 60% of the kids in his small goat herd have been born dead or deformed in the past two years...
...face showed lines of global tension. They were only signs of middle-aged fatherhood. "I knew those two children were going to be rebellious if their old man was suc- cessful at something and they decided to do the same thing," he sighs. "I had to hold my breath sometimes and not let it hurt too much...
...easier to grow in the theater than it is in films, because you have more time to let it grow. You rehearse for four weeks-I call it "baby up on a part." When the script is out of your hands, you can begin to put the breath and the blood into the character. I don't think of myself as the character. I think of the guy that the playwright wrote...
...advertising men. Officials of agencies creating these ads explain that such products, because they deal with dirt and unpleasant aspects of life, are difficult to sell gracefully. Ted Bates & Co. produced a television commercial for Colgate 100 mouthwash in which one woman confides to another: "My boyfriend said my breath would kill an elephant." According to Robert Castle, a Bates senior vice president, the ad revived the product's sagging sales. Says he: "You cannot sell mouthwashes with Bermuda beaches." On the other side, John OToole, president of Foote, Cone & Belding, contends that "the people who create offensive...
...second month, the normal human infant breaks into its first smile. The expression is often considered a reflex action, but it soon becomes social, and in the fourth month develops into that explosive, exclusively human breath pattern called laughter. Laughter serves man well. It can relieve his anxiety and tension, pave the way to friendship and enable him to tolerate his own-and life's-absurdities. Laughter is vital in helping to define what is human: its absence is generally taken as a sign of grave psychic stress. Yet laughter itself has never been satisfactorily defined. "The laughable...