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Salt comes from dead, dried-up seas or living ones. It can bubble to the surface as brine or crop out in the form of salt licks and shallow caverns. Below the skin of the earth it lies in white veins, some of them thousands of feet deep. It can...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: History According to Salt | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

Not only did salt serve to flavor and preserve food, it made a good antiseptic, which is why the Roman word for these salubrious crystals (sal) is a first cousin to Salus, the goddess of health. Of all the roads that led to Rome, one of the busiest was the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: History According to Salt | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

Director Richardson is a long way from his old terrain of kitchen sinks (A Taste of Honey) and drawing rooms (Tom Jones). He allows a few implausibilities and submits the viewer to one winsome muchacho too many. But this is still a successful invasion of Peckinpah County, where bogus high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Grubby Hero | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

When the homeless Black accordion player whom Arthur briefly befriends sings "Every time it rains, it rains pennies from heaven" while dancing sopping wet outside a sleazy restaurant we get the message. The camera pans over the depressed faces of dining customers--and the lush orchestration conjures up images of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Roaring Thirties | 1/14/1982 | See Source »

Half of Hamilton's practice is now devoted to cats. Many of their emotional problems stem from jealousy. Several of her clients are recently married women whose pets cannot share affection with the new spouse. One miffed feline regularly urinated on the new husband's side of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crazy over Cats | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

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