Word: hypochondriac
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...Mattress version, the queen, Aggravain, is an all-American hen-pecking hypochondriac who sets up impossible tests for princesses because she has the hots for her son, Prince Dauntless. Felice Perlman rises far above her own experience to play the Queen with a Vogue-social-climber...
NEAR THE END of Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid, Beralde turns to the hypochondriac, Argan, and suggests that he "go see some of Moliere's plays" on the subject of medicine. To do so, Beralde explains, would be a good lesson for Argan and might persuade him of the absurdity of his belief in the power and good will of doctors, for they are all quacks--their pills, injections, and enemas only impede the proper working of the body...
Last week in Toronto, that happy hypochondriac Glenn Gould was busy coming down with the flu, having dizzy spells, getting massaged, guarding his private life, and communicating with the world, as usual, only by telephone...
ALEXANDRIA, MINN., Theater L'Homme Dieu. Moliere's classic spoof of the medical profession, The Imaginary Invalid, tells of a hypochondriac hypocrite who discovers that the only way to save on bills is to become a doctor himself...
Trucks in the Street. Maybe that explains why Clemente is an insomniac who says: "Anything makes noise while I'm in bed, I hear it-a truck outside the hotel, a footstep in the hall." And that he is widely regarded as an unreconstructed hypochondriac, whose headaches, colds, cramps and nervous stomach come from worrying-about his headaches, colds, cramps and stomach. Even so, Roberto, says Pittsburgh Manager Harry Walker, "is just the best player in baseball, that...