Word: gall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kathy Sue Whittaker?)'s 12 closest friends were brutally murdered. What made her think Friday the 13th, 1981, would be any different?" The title unfolds: "FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH--PART TWO." I felt like I was 20,000 leagues beneath the Charles. Not only does this movie have the gall to acclaim itself as a total rehash of an awful, misogynist film that was the epitome of cinema merde, but the trailer shows us every murder in the new version--in order--and then asks us to come see it anyway. To wit: A girl stands in front of a window...
...Twinkie," somebody says to his friend. "You couldda beaten Hagler. Wid a gun! Wid a gun!" He is taken with his own joke, and keeps repeating the punchline to gall Twinkie...
Each year about 20 million operations are performed in the U.S. Though surgeons claim that at most only 1% of these are unnecessary, some observers put the figure at more than 15%. Among the procedures said to be the most overdone: hysterectomies, tonsillectomies, gall bladder removals and operations on the the spine. To cut down on excessive use of the scalpel and, not incidentally, soaring medical-care costs, in the past few years federal agencies and insurance companies have been urging patients to get an independent second opinion whenever nonemergency surgery is recommended. Now comes the surprising suggestion that second...
...partial adrenal insufficiency." Dwight Eisenhower was the exception. After he was felled by a heart attack, he and his physicians chose full medical disclosure, issuing daily bulletins that went so far as to describe presidential bowel movements. Lyndon Johnson was generous with details of his 1965 gall bladder operation-and, as a now-famous photograph attests, he even showed off his scar for the nation...
...BOOK, Michael Harrington had the gall to contend that Daniel Bell--among several other scholars--had misinterpreted Marx, and proposed to present the "authentic Marx." Bell, a man whose intellectual prowess does not outstrip his intellectual pride, did not respond kindly. In a 1977 review essay entitled, "The Once and Future Marx," Bell diligently and thoroughly devasted Harrington's version of the "real Marx," leaving readers gasping for breath and muttering, "please, please stop, our young liberal spirits want so badly to believe in something fresh and new and radical." But Bell will not stop. He further charges that Harrington...