Word: mucus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Marine biologists flocked to the site of the distressed whale when it was found in only 3 ft. of water near Long Island's Jones Beach. Its breathing was labored, mucus leaked from its blowhole, and it would surely have died. Though the creature was only three to six years old and far from full grown, it was already formidable. A 24-ft.-long male, it was, at 25,000 lbs., about as heavy as two full-grown elephants and just as powerful...
...ages are sixteen, thirty-three-and-a-third, forty-five and seventy-eight," he laughs. "Turning thirty -- everybody thinks about it, I guess. But it don't bother me, I feel pretty healthy." At which point Waits lets loose a painful succession of coughs, a peal of mucus swirling in the lungs...
Scholondorff is best at Oskar's birth, a womb-view of human re-entry. We stare with Oskar out of his mother's heaving port-hole, hurtle down the bloody, mucus-filled chute, and then, too soon, out the door into the glaring bulb-light of modern German, Western Middle-class civilization. "When little Oskar is three, he will have a toy drum," says Mama and his umbilical cord...