Word: dissected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...search for a common thread among these widely diverse groups has confounded researchers from coast to coast. When AIDS was confined to the gay community, says Curran, "our efforts were concentrated on trying to dissect out life-style differences." Various sexual practices and the use of amyl nitrite "poppers," inhalants widely used by homosexuals to enhance orgasm, were among the subjects investigated. The life-style theory does not, however, explain the emergence of AIDS in nongay populations. Most researchers now believe that an infectious agent is involved in AIDS. This agent is probably transmissible in a variety of ways, through...
...indeed. The boy who was last to be chosen for any pickup baseball team, who was labeled "the retard" by the boys in his phys.-ed. class, who was sickened by having to dissect a frog in junior high and ran outside to vomit with the others-"and the others were all girls"- found he could win friends and influence people with his movies. He enrolled in a Boy Scout photography program, where his success made him at 13 one of the youngest Eagle Scouts ever. ("If I hadn't been a Scout," Spielberg cheerfully admits today...
That De Chirico was a poet, and a great one, is not in dispute. He could condense voluminous feeling through metaphor and association. One can try to dissect these magical nodes of experience, yet not find what makes them cohere...
...women's soccer personalities who dropped in to cheer their old team to victory. Former captain ELLEN HART '80, still running and back in Boston consulting Nike on new products, and SALLY GOLDSBERRY '80, currently studying at the Law School, braved the cold and wet to watch the Crimson dissect Smith...
...Paths dissect Boston Common; at the widest point on any trail, you're maybe 20 yards from another of the walkways. But only a few are wide enough to accomodate a police car, and these are far less populated than the others, for the police do not like people gathering in their park. "You should have been here five minutes ago," one young man tells two others as they stroll up the path to his bench. "Motherfuckin cops took a case of beer off me, and all I got was one can." An hour later, with a replenished supply...