Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Parted his brain, pressed on, and skewered...
...that last June forced Ottawa to impose a belt-tightening austerity program to ease Canada's imbalance of international payments. The Tories promised to balance the budget (after five straight deficits), to create 1,000,000 new jobs in the next five years, and to set up a brain-trusting National Economic Development Board to plan economic growth...
...behind the gun was Georgetown University's Neurosurgeon John P. Gallagher, who wanted a safe way to treat aneurysms in the brain. Aneurysms are like blisters in tubeless tires: at a weak spot in its wall, an artery balloons out. The stretched wall is so thin that any rise in blood pressure caused by excitement or strain may burst it. Occasionally and unpredictably, the break is self-sealing and the scar may make the artery wall stronger than before, but more often a fatal flood of blood is spilled into the brain cavity. Usually, the aneurysm first develops...
...better to choose some other novel and novelist in the first place: Snow's books are wordy enough, goodness knows, but they're not especially talky; dialogue is usually reserved for the moments of climactic self-revelation hoarded by Lewis Eliot, who then mumbles them over in his tortuous brain, and fills most of the rest of each novel with speculations about just what precisely it was that his friends actually had revealed...
...realism is collage. Though he denies being a trompe l'oeil painter, Bohrod stands as an eye-fool tower of strength to other long-thwarted realists. To jeers of "get a camera," Bohrod replies that the camera is a wonderful eye, but it has no guiding brain, heart or soul...