Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tics and involuntary outbursts of swearing (100,000 Americans); Prader-Willi syndrome, a children's ailment that causes huge weight gains and often kills its victims before they are 20 (2,000); Wilson's disease, a condition marked by abnormal accumulation of copper in the liver and brain (1,000); Huntington's chorea, the degenerative disease of the mind and nervous system that caused the death of Folk Singer Woody Guthrie (14,000); as well as various rare cancers...
...stunned fatal sprawl. The inarticulate carrion aftermath. We have seen them in Viet Nam and El Salvador and Uganda and Rhodesia and God knows where. My Lai is the primordial scene of the type. The same evil black bats burst flapping out of the pictures, into the brain, and each time the mind flinches and contracts and sickens and grieves for a moment. And yet, unless the slaughter has some especially lunatic human interest, as Jonestown did, we move on soon enough to other business. All of that death dissolves by and by into a form of abstraction...
...youngest child, from the driver's-side door (leading to speculation, eventually squelched, that the underage and unlicensed Stéphanie had been driving). Firemen extricated Princess Grace. The first confusing bulletins from the palace spoke only of a broken leg, but she never regained consciousness, and a brain scan showed irreparable damage from the stroke and her injuries. She died the next day, at 52, after Rainier and their older children, Princess Caroline, 25, and Prince Albert, 24, agreed to the removal of a life-support system. At week's end Stéphanie remained hospitalized with...
...tiny, prosperous principality of Monaco. She was America's first princess, and the closest thing to royalty our country ever had. For most of her life, Grace Kelly's feet never touched the ground. So when she suffered a stroke last week that not only ravaged her brain but resulted in a car crash that mangled her body and seriously injured her daughter, it was almost as though some grand, cosmic accountant was exacting from her, in one lump sum, all the dues she never before had to pay. All along she had seemed exempt from the routine pains...
...Erato who breaks into Miles' story real or a figment of his imagination? Wait a minute. She has always been a myth (has she not?), and what could possibly be called real in a made-up story that takes place entirely in a gray area suspiciously resembling a brain...