Word: nostrils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another, I was one and another witness-a party person who had been connected with the Ford White House, a protocol type." Had anyone actually seen Jordan snort cocaine? "Johnny C. was the one who turned him on, and I saw him take a hit in each nostril. It was next to the pinball machines...
What's your pleasure? A "steel pianist" who plays Beethoven's Für Elise on the cut-off top of a 55-gal. oil drum? Step right up. A conga drummer with a silver earring in one nostril and a red gem in the other, or a classical guitarist in top hat, tails and tennis shoes? Right this way. String quartets, punk rockers, brass quintets, bagpipers, country crooners, dixieland stompers, ad hoc duos of every string, woodwind and percussive persuasion? Just around the corner...
...deals. Fuentes would have smiled at the results of the talks. If the author had written a sequel to The Hydra Head at that point, maybe he would have had Felix Maldonado wake up to find he had regained his original name, or perhaps an ear or a nostril...
...researchers gave male volunteers aged 50 to 65 three sprays of vasopressin in each nostril every day for three days. Similar volunteers who received whiffs of a dummy spray showed no response. But the concentration and memory of those who got the vasopressin improved markedly. Three patients who had suffered impaired memories after auto accidents were given doses for four weeks. One man, 55, was able to remember the dates of his accident, his marriage and other important events that he had been unable to recall before treatment...
...place; his postcards can no more be excerpted than his essays. As these letters reveal, White was, like many humorists, a secret sufferer. For most of his adult life, the writer lightly chronicles a series of illnesses and operations: "They got at the bone through my right nostril, which I consider very resourceful, and the morphine was just what I had been needing all along." In the mid-'40s he suffers fron a mental crackup. His prescription for recovery: "Drink dry sherry in small amounts, spend most of your time with hand tools at a bench, and play...