Word: enemas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...narrative surprise. It prowls -- slowly, so slowly -- in search of grandeur, but it often finds murk. It permits a few inside jokes (a cartoon of a bat in a suit, drawn by Kane), but mines its main humor from the Joker's ribald misanthropy ("This town needs an enema"). Batman's style is both daunting and lurching; it has trouble deciding which of its antagonists should set the tone. It can be as manic as the Joker, straining to hear the applause of outrage; it can be as implosive as Batman-Bruce, who seems crushed by the burden...
...enables Larkin to thresh out his quarrel fully with modernism. He writes warmly about his youthful passion for the likes of Armstrong, Beiderbecke and Ellington, but charges that Bebop Saxophonist Charlie Parker destroyed it all with music that gave "the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously." Parker thus joins Pound and Picasso in Larkin's unholy trinity of decadent experimenters, and jazz's evolution becomes a capsule version of the "degeneration into private and subsidized absurdity" that he believes is overtaking all the arts. What has been lost, Larkin insists, is his conception...
...prepared new patients, some think the fertile fringe has gone too far. Says Dr. Melchior Savarese, an obstetrician at Columbia Hospital for Women in Washington, D.C.: This group of women comes into my office with lists of questions. 'Am I going to have an I.V., an external monitor, an enema?' They set down guidelines. It causes minor confrontations. They're overly prepared." Says William Simon, professor of sociology at the University of Houston: "The underside of this situation is that these are interesting women. They are wondrous products of the culture of narcissism. They want the best of everything?best...
...journals more than accounts of new and weird ailments. Over the years readers of the New England Journal of Medicine have been treated to numerous such "first reports." Among them: cyclist's pudendal neuritis (genital numbness from marathon bike rides on poorly padded seats), water-skier's enema (the result of high-speed falls in a sitting position) and disco felon (a finger infection from constant finger snapping on the dance floor...
...almost never won custody of children in court. Today a few do. But the actual raising of a brood of children is still frightening to a man alone. McCarthy's Tuesday group has been clumsily confronting problems like how to get a fever down, how to give an enema, where to find milk at 6 in the morning, how to help sons with bed-wetting traumas and which diet is best for a teenage daughter who wants to stay svelte...