Word: comas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bulow, Sunny •coma is not emerged from...
After he was convicted of attempted murder, Claus asked me to give the case a fresh view. My team of students and I hired some of the world's greatest medical experts to give a second hard look at the evidence. Their conclusion was unambiguous. Sunny's coma was self-induced. Claus' conviction was reversed, and he was acquitted...
...policeman's shoulder in 1993, but the worst accident came in 1997, when 43-mph winds blew The Cat in the Hat into a lamppost, causing the metal arm to fall off and hit 33-year-old Kathleen Caronna on the head. Caronna spent nearly a month in a coma, then sued Macy's and the city for $395 million. (The parties reached an undisclosed settlement in 2001.) Nine years later, in a strange twist of "only in New York" fate, Yankee relief pitcher Cory Lidle crashed his private airplane into Caronna's highrise apartment...
...elections in any of our lives. What’s more is that we may be only moments away from electing our first black President and starting the process of cleaning up this Dartmouth-frat-house of a shit-show.Those of you who haven’t been in a coma probably are aware that Barack Obama has a pretty good chance of winning (knock on wood), but I want to take a moment to be the devil’s advocate (no conservative pun intended) and imagine the opposite scenario. More specifically, I want to take this chance to reassure...
...faults, the Roth of Indignation is interested in subjects outside himself: war, politics, history, death, things that impinge on the warm bubble of self and family. Whereas Portnoy tells his story from a psychiatrist's couch, Marcus narrates Indignation from beyond the grave (or possibly from a morphine coma). He has been drafted into the Korean War--a draft for which Portnoy was a year too young--and he has fallen on the battlefield. You could read this as Roth's quasi-Oedipal execution of his younger alter ego, but it plays more like a correction: Wake up, Portnoy, there...