Word: morbidly
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...last decade, bariatric surgeries like gastric bypass have become an acceptable method for treating the 15 million people in the U.S. who suffer from morbid obesity. "Obesity can be life threatening," says Dr. Philip Schauer, president of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery (ASBS). "And surgery is the next best step." Despite this, only 1% of patients who are eligible for surgery (those with a BMI over 40 or a BMI of 35 or more in conjunction with an obesity-related disease) actually get it. Sometimes, people just don't want to undergo a surgical procedure, but more often than...
...film sets and even have publicity divisions to work especially with them, the fanboy effect is most pronounced for smaller-budget releases like Smith's. Shaun of the Dead, 2004's romantic comedy with zombies, became a sleeper hit when horror buffs embraced its zombie-movie in-jokes and morbid humor. Simon Pegg, 37, the British comic who co-wrote Shaun and plays the film's lovelorn zombie hunter, remembers wishing he had someone with whom to share the joy of cinematic subtext when he first saw E.T. in 1982. In one scene, Spielberg dropped in the music from Lucas...
...lives of mass killers. Earnestly and honestly, detectives and journalists dig up apparent clues and weave them into a sort of explanation. In the days after Columbine, for example, Harris and Klebold emerged as alienated misfits in the jock culture of their suburban high school. We learned about their morbid taste in music and their violent video games. Largely missing, though, was the proper frame around the picture: the extreme narcissism that licensed these boys, in their minds, to murder their teachers and classmates...
Some of you can see my cell-phone number in my contact information, and the personal section just has lyrics from Blue Oyster Cult’s “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper.” No, I’m not morbid – I just think the song is cool...
...songs sung in the school bus and learnt at home—the English title of the film is a line from a song about war-torn Bosnia. The well-used pick-up line “Where have I seen you before?” gets the morbid and somewhat unexpected answer: “At postmortem identifications.” Sara and her boyfriend first bond over the death of their fathers. However, all is not drenched in the drama and pain of the past: Esma and Sara rough-tumble in their pajamas, Sara throws her babysitter?...