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Conjunctivitis, also known as pink eye or Madras eye, [4] [5] is inflammation of the conjunctiva and the inner surface of the eyelid. [6] It makes the eye appear pink or reddish. [1] Pain, burning, scratchiness, or itchiness may occur. [1] The affected eye may have increased tears or be "stuck shut" in the morning. [1] Swelling of the sclera ...
"Quitters, Inc." [1] is a short story by Stephen King published as part of his 1978 short story collection Night Shift. Unlike most other stories in this book, "Quitters, Inc." had been previously unpublished until February 1978 under Doubleday Publishing. It was featured in Edward D. Hoch's 1979 ‘Best detective stories of the year ...
On the cover of Lisa Birnbach’s “The Official Preppy Handbook,” a tongue-in-cheek 1980s guide to looking, acting and thinking like a US prep school elite, a pattern along the border depicts ...
The film's release also attracted rumours that the use of 3D glasses was spreading conjunctivitis, which was dubbed "Madras Eye". These rumours prompted the makers to add footage before the film began with prominent actors Prem Nazir , Amitabh Bachchan , Jeetendra , Rajinikanth , Chiranjeevi and others explaining that the glasses were ...
In 2004, Madras on Rainy Days received the Rona Jaffe Foundation Award in Fiction. [1] The book also was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award in 2005, [2] and was awarded the Prix Premier Roman Étranger 2005 Award in France. [3] In July 2004, the book was chosen as a best debut novel of the year by Poets & Writers magazine. The ...
The Eye of Night is a 2002 fantasy novel by Pauline Alama. [1] [2] [3] [4]It is notable for including among its leading characters a dwarf called Hwyn—not the mythological race of Dwarves but the human variation of dwarfism.
The first edition titled Madras Discovered was published in 1981 by East-West Books. It was 160 pages long and priced at Rs. 10. The second edition of Madras Discovered, 286 pages long was published in 1987 followed by the third edition in 1993, 363 pages long, which was augmented by a supplement titled "Once Upon a City".
According to Heffer, the book both harks back to Huxley's early satires and links to the more serious and philosophical concerns of his later novels. Formally, the novel uses a modernist stream of consciousness but based in fact, unlike the novels of Woolf , Proust and Joyce , whose narrators' memories are unreliable.