Word: inserting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gunslinger of words, Tom Stoppard shoots to kill with laughter. Dirty Linen, with its insert piece New-Found-Land, is probably the most killingly funny play he has written, though it is also the slenderest. Stoppard's works seem solidest when built on an earlier substructure. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead may be the sturdiest because it is built on Hamlet, and Travesties the wittiest since it springs from The Importance of Being Earnest...
...estrogens and progesterones-in smaller and therefore less dangerous doses. One device being tested by Dr. Daniel R. Mishell of the University of Southern California School of Medicine seems to hold unusual promise: it is a small (two-inch diameter), doughnut-shaped flexible plastic ring that a woman can insert into her vagina. It prevents conception, not by blocking the sperm, as does the diaphragm, but by releasing a small steady trickle of steroids into the bloodstream through the mucous membranes of the vagina. The quantity is sufficient to prevent ovulation, says Mishell, but should be low enough to avoid...
...there's no difference between him and the writers at the cocktail party inside, that in fact, he's a lot worse than what he tried to supplant. During the trial of the Chicago Eight, J. Anthony Lukas '55, who covered it for The New York Times, tried to insert David Dellinger's comment, "Oh bullshit," (for which Judge Julius Hoffman revoked his bail) into the news story he was writing. The Times national desk balked. They wanted to say Dellinger used "an obscenity." Lukas persisted, and they compromised with "a barnyard epithet." You used to get a feeling that...
...University is "not persuaded that organization is the way to solve the problem of communication," Powers said. "This insert in the Gazette is one of the other ways that we are trying," he added...
...center, he's booked solid. Open three days a week to undergraduate, graduate and extension students, the center is flooded with requests from students with a wide variety of problems. Weinstein said the problems ran from "those of the undergraduate from Japan who is uncertain where to insert the definite article, to those of the senior who wants to write with more of his true voice showing...