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...with sympathy. She makes sufficient noises in the vague directions of liberalism to insure our recognition that she cares in the correct way about moral and political issues which the films she sees might raise. She is overwhelmingly ebullient, yet most of the time manages to restrain her verbal sweat glands and channel her energy into vigorous writing. But if you sweep away her layers of reputation -- her accolades, her past accomplishments, and her present heroic-scale fame -- you find that there are no firm intellectual roots to her analysis, and no rational bounds to her emotionalism. Pauline Kael...
...Hyperhydrosis-excessive sweat-iness-of the palms may not seem like a major medical problem, but those who suffer from a clammy grip can find the condition both annoying and embarrassing. Antiperspirants provide only temporary relief; radiation, which some physicians use to destroy sweat glands, may cause dangerous skin conditions. Now Dr. Donald Dohn of the Cleveland Clinic reports that a safe and effective remedy has been developed; patients with serious cases of hyperhydro-sis have been cured by surgery. The operation, called an upper thoracic sympathectomy, is performed by making an incision in the side of the neck...
...have to be careful when you read Kael. Careful because she's so good. Her influence is tremendous: she got my mother to go to Loving and then to mindlessly applaud it because she had come equipped with Kael's permission to read herself into its middle-class sweat...
...past, Williams has been a team that we've not had any real sweat about, that we could always be in a game with but not necessarily beat," Munro said...
...persuasions are worried. Watergate, they believe, resulted from too much campaign money. In the old days there simply were no funds for such stupidities. One G.O.P. state chairman says that he has so much money that it is ruining his organization. Nobody needs to roll up his sleeves and sweat...