Word: digesting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...activated neutrophils then "walk across the epithelium into damaged cells," where they digest the useless tissue, Arnaout said...
Clearly, American politicians feel that their constituents can't digest the truth in their already distended stomachs. But more than bloated bellies, the doublespeak of "contribution" reveals the potentially corrosive force that mendacity has in American politics. Clinton has been extensively praised for his honesty and "tough-talk" on the editorial and op-ed pages of the nation. For what? For the "fairness" of the plan and its oh-so-serious attempt to reduce the budget deficit? Or for its far-reaching vision (i.e. re-election in four years) to rebuild and invest in America...
Rage and pity, even self-pity, have their place as well as their limits. Now let's try laughter -- the best medicine, as Reader's Digest, Norman Cousins and Paul Rudnick can tell you. Rudnick has already earned many a healthy laugh with his plays Poor Little Lambs and I Hate Hamlet and his comic essays in Vanity Fair and Spy. Jeffrey, though, is a real tonic. It's a wonderful comedy about a rancid tragedy: the crape of death hanging over any gay guy who is crazy about...
...usually decorous Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe meeting in Stockholm, diplomats rocketed from their seats when Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev tossed out the diplomatic equivalent of a fragmentation grenade: a blistering anti-Western philippic right out of the cold war. After giving delegates 30 minutes to digest demands that the West immediately end U.N. sanctions in Serbia and get out of the Baltics, Kozyrev returned to explain that the speech was a ruse. His intended message: Don't take Russian democracy for granted...
...create subsets. Stereotypes are easier to digest in small chunks. There's the Eliot-Porcellian-white bread crowd. There's the Hasty Pudding "we take elitists of all sorts, crunchy and regular" crowd. There's the artsy type, in Crimson, Advocate or Lampoon flavor. (If these are too Old Harvard, try Indy, Quarterly, or Squid. If print is not your style, try a cappella...