Word: hypochondriacal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is also some potential for suspense in a computer whiz, played by Paul Mazursky, who is better known as a director (An Unmarried Woman). The genius' wife is deserting him, he is a hypochondriac and chicken to boot. One imagines he might crack under the add ed strain of the caper, but he never does, and Mazursky's portrayal of a mild-mannered man is only mildly amusing...
...liberal portions. The central character, who sits on a stool at center stage, is Serge, a young man about 25 years old who has just returned to Canada from a three-month vacation to Europe. Around him, in their solitary chairs, are his four older sisters, two intolerable, hypochondriac aunts and his father who is so deaf he can barely hear shouts. During the play, Serge confronts the fact that the members of his family have made wrecks of their lives...
...wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy. The whole world is so greedy for more bathtubs to turn off the tap. Nothing could be more salutatory at this stage than a little healthy contempt for a plethora of material blessings...
...room are often more interesting than the action on the field, the most disruptive event that occurred on the Royals all year long was Shortstop Patek's missing part of a West Coast road trip. He claimed he was hurt, but a few players suggested he was a hypochondriac. Big deal. With such a mild-mannered crew to boss, Manager Herzog gives his players free rein and has found it necessary to call only one meeting all year long, which must be a league record...
...assistant hockey coach during the winter months. He replaces Bob Donovan, Harvard's Director of Sports Promotions. The new captains are junior Jim Dales and Senior Spence Fitzgibbons, who bring diametrically opposed attitudes to the game. Dales has never taken a lesson while Fitzgibbons is a golfing hypochondriac who regularly consults golfing gurus around the world...