Word: lumps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Everything she knows she has learned from television; she rants and raves about the savagery of the Third World as she plans to boil her husband "like a lobster--lobsters don't feel pain." Guy Strauss as Mitch, the butt of most of these jokes, plays the vegetable (or lump, or carrot) brilliantly; when he begins to recover towards the end, his twitches and moans are appallingly funny...
...these entertainments that the industry looks to be holding a year-end fire sale, with damaged goods peddled to the holiday crowds. Here and there one can find a pleasant or ambitious film, but none fills the Christmas stocking with delight. Moviegoers are advised to ask for a lump of coal...
...mutilate my body, and then I'm going to die." But Miller has lost neither her life nor her breast. Like a small but growing number of breast-cancer patients in the U.S., she avoided a mastectomy and instead was treated with a simple removal of the breast lump (lumpectomy) followed by radiation therapy...
...America for the winter by renting a villa in Nice. It turned out to be a dank monster, out of town but nowhere near the sea, with camphorated neighbors. The view consisted of a rectangular, tiled pool hedged with silvery artemisia bushes; at one end stood a garden-gnome lump of a reproduction putto, coyly peeing into the water. Beyond that, some straggly shrubs, a screen of cypresses and a few glimpses of the house next door, as ugly as hers-and, most of the time, rain. So much for Dick and Nicole Diver's paradise...
...time private practice in Morganton, N.C., in 1974, the bushy-browed raconteur has also been a busy author. Humor of a Country Lawyer, his just-published anecdotal collection, covers everything from Ervin's circuit-riding attorney days to Watergate to the Social Security computer that paid him a lump-sum death benefit by mistake. He is troubled by arthritis, hypertension and other ailments, but reports of ole Sam's death were exaggerated. Indeed, he says he "feels pretty good" on the eve of his 87th birthday this week. There is no party planned as far as he knows...