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Seat of pain discovered
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by Paul Dirn*
in teenager’s tight jeans
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LUCERNE, Switzerland —
jeans
Tight jeans can discomfort,
they can be hazardous to health
and result in a real pain in the
seat, a pediatrician warned
Monday.
Dr. Alois Scharli, of Lu
cerne’s cantonal hospital, said in
a medical magazine article that
wearing tight jeans puts pres
sure on the cutaneous nerve
and leads to inflamation and ex
treme pain.
The nerve runs from the
lower spinal cord to the thigh.
Scharli said he has operated
since 1975 on a dozen adoles
cents aged 12 to 15 with in
flamed cutaneous nerves and all
but one had worn tight jeans.
One of the teenagers was a
girl who refused at first to take
off her jeans for fear she
couldn’t put them on again, he
said.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Po
litical debate often sounds more
like a zoo, horse race or barn
yard, but that should be no sur
prise, a lexicographer said
Monday.
“Humans have interacted
with animals for so long they
tend to draw their metaphors
from the animal world,” said
Dr. Frederick C. Mish of Mir-
riam-Webster Inc.
“While you see this in politics,
you also see it in many other
areas. A person can be said to
eat like a horse or eat like a pig,
let the cat out of the bag, lead a
dog’s life or shed crocodile
tears,” said Mish, editor of
Webster’s Ninth Collegiate Dic
tionary.
So, former Vice President
Walter Mondale is often consid
ered "the front-runner.” Sen.
Gary Hart was a “dark horse”
and if he stops Mondale without
getting the nomination himself,
could be a “stalking horse,”
according to Mish.
All candidates depend on
“wheel horses” and both Mon
dale and Hart would love to
make President Reagan a “lame
duck.”
Politicians occasionally "pus
syfoot” and use “weasel words”
or “red herrings.”
“Front-runner” has it’s roots
in horse racing and was first
used in 1914, but Mish said
“dark horse” requires more of
an explanation.
The term was first used in
formally in racing circles, and
was first used in print by 19th
century British Prime Minister
Benjamin Disraeli in his novel,
“The Young Duke."
conceal someone elses
dacy, Mish said.
“A dark horse, which had
never been thought of, and
which the careless St. James had
never observed in the list,
rushed past the grandstand in
sweeping triumph,” he wrote.
Politics borrowed the phrase
to mean a candidate nominated
unexpectedly, usually as a result
of a compromise, he said.
About 100 years ago, “stalk
ing horse” crept into the politi
cal dialogue. The term was first
used in hunting to mean a “type
of camouflage used by a hunter
stalking game.”
In politics, a “stalking horse”
runs to divide the opposition or
‘Wheel horses” wett
horses positioned nears
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mill wheels and pulled the
weight. In politics, a I
horse” became an mdm
worker who put togeiheri
fective campaign, he said
A "lame duck” is onetk
been shot but isn’t quitei
In politics, a “lame dud'
politician who has notlw
elected but must remaini
lice until his term ends.
To “pussyfoot” is to
around something ttiil
committing oneself, Mish
The word first appeard
1903.
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Four papers share two prizes each
‘Dr. Seuss’ wins Pulitzer priz
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NEW YORK — The Los An
geles Times, The Wall Street
Journal, The New York Times
and the Boston Globe each cap
tured a pair of Pulitzer Prizes
Monday, the most prestigious
awards in journalism.
A special Pulitzer was
awarded to Theodor Seuss Gei-
sel, more popularly known as
“Dr. Seuss,” who after 47 years
of writing children’s classics
such as “The Cat in the Hat,” fi
nally has a book on the adult
best-seller list.
The Pulitzer for fiction went
William Kennedy for his
to
novel “Ironweed,” which was
rejected 13 times before being
published by Viking Press. Set
in 1938, it is the story of a for
mer baseball player turned
murderer.
The Los Angeles Times won
the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for mer
itorious public service for an in-
depth examination of Southern
California’s growing Latino
community as well as the Pulit
zer for editorial cartooning by
Paul Conrad, who previously
won Pulitzer citations in 1964
and 1971.
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The meritorious service
award is regarded as the highest
honor among the 12 Pulitzer ci
tations for newspapers. It was
presented to a team of report
ers and editors of the newspa
per.
“I’m next to speechless.
We’re very proud and very
pleased,” said George J. Cotliar,
managing editor of the Times.
A team of two editors and 11
writers conducted more than
1,000 interviews and polled
nearly 1,500 southern Califor
nians on social, cultural and po
litical issues that resulted in a
27-part series entitled “Lat
inos.”
Karen Elliott House, newly
named as foreign editor of the
Wall Street Journal, won the
Pulitzer for her international
reporting on the Middle East.
Vermont Royster, who writes
the column “Thinking It Over”
in the Journal, won the Pulitzer
for commentary, his second
award.
“We’re all drinking cham
pagne right now,” said Norman
Pearlstein, managing editor of
the Journal.
“When you are young and
the first time, it is obviously very
exciting,” said Royster, who
won his first Pulitzer 29 years
ago for editorial writing and has
worked at the Journal since
1936.
“Thirty years later, at age 70,
it is not quite so exciting but it
gives me great personal pride
and satisfaction to think I could
do it when I was 40 and here I
am 70,” he added.
The Pulitzer board especially
praised his writing on tax laws,
Vietnam War veterans, the le
gacy of Martin Luther and
moral relativism.
Ms. House, 36, of the Jour
nal, was cited for her stories
that correctly anticipated the
problems of the Reagan admin
istration’s Middle East peace
plan and broke the news of se
cret promises Reagan made to
King Hussein of Jordan.
John Noble Wilford, of The
New York Times, won for na
tional reporting for his ability to
convey “the wonder and reality
of science” in stories that
ranged from “space war” weap
ons to the mysterious tug of
“Planet X” on Uranus and Nep
tune.
Paul Goldberger, 33, the
Times senior architecture critic,
won the criticism award for his
stories on architectural devel
opment across the United
States.
“The best recognition is rec
ognition from one’s peers, and
that’s what Pulitzers are,” said
A.M. Rosenthal, executive edi
tor of the Times. “We’re de
lighted.
A team of seven staff mem
bers at T he Boston Globe won
the special local reporting prize
for a series of stories investigat
ing racial tension in Bo
Globe chief photographer,
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( u ossfeld, 32, also won the
news photography award
pictures from Lebanonsho*
the faces of men, women
children caught in the inf
fear and violence of war.
The Globe found that
the city’s most powerful
ness leaders, bankers, units
deans, labor leaders and
newspaper editors, met,
were no blacks present,
called it “disenfranchising
one-fifth of the cily’s pop
tion.”
The reporters named
Kenneth Cooper, 28;
FitzGerald, 35; Jonathanfc
man, 27; Norman Locin
■45; Gary McMillan, 39;
Sc liar fen berg, 40, and Dr
Wessel, 30.
“Dr. Seuss” Geisel, reach
his home in La Jolla, Calif
he was “flabbergasted” bi
special citation.
“All my books are part
war against illiteracy. 1 u
inspire children to read
lure children to the ptii
word and just gel them tun
pages. Hopefully, the verst
humor makes reading fun
He said the timing o
award was especially exflt p (
since it came on a weehfrkr f
the latest of his . books,'
Butter Battle Book,” becanif
first to reach
seller list.
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