Word: wormwood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work-study program is excellent for Greenpeace," says Greenpeace staff member Daejanna Wormwood, a former work-study student. "We always enjoy having work-study and internships--this is how work gets done...
...have: insecticides and drugs, as well as vaccines," says Top. Drug research is continuing at Walter Reed and elsewhere. Mefloquine, discovered by the Army in 1974, remains about 98% effective against the deadly falciparum strain, but signs of resistance are already appearing. Quinghaosu, a Chinese drug derived from the wormwood plant, is "extremely promising," according to Lucas of WHO. But because drug resistance develops quickly, the search cannot stop. Says Top: "If we don't put out a good malaria control drug every five to seven years, we will be in trouble...
...psychosomatic equivalent of a heart attack. That is not, perhaps, the stuff of box-office comedy, and, as a portrait of Hollywood, it seems less satire than neorealism. Yet by the final fadeout, Josh Greenfeld's novel turns out to be both uproariously funny and bitter as wormwood...
Then too his character must be reckoned into the burgeoning myth. Morley's reputation as the last wild man of the art world grows and grows. Stories about him proliferate and are often true: a jail sentence in Wormwood Scrubs as a young man, the rages in the broken-up studio, the destruction of work. One German collector gave Morley $40,000 for a painting and was nonplused to see the artist slash his canvas to ribbons before handing the check back. Such gestures establish a profile. But it is the work that matters...
...horns wanes into an A minor chord, and the reiteration of this three-second transformation during the hour-and-a-half of Abbado's new Deutsche-Grammophon recording with the Chicago Symphony warps the texture of adventure, love and almost militant drive and power until the five angels ascend, Wormwood falls, locusts emerge from the great pit, or--is it possible to compare--Brando gets what he deserves. The Pentagon might object to this violent death, or respond by sending in troops of its own. Mahler, who became a Roman Catholic in 1997, seven years before he completed the symphony...