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...pass a good bill if "the neurotics and psychotics would just trust us." And T.V.A. bureaucrats, instead of sympathizing with people dispossessed by the agency's activities, trumpeted their own bureaucratic righteousness. T.V.A.'s chief solicitor said, "The story of these people has been told to the point of nausea. There ought to be some point where reporters would tell things as they are instead of indulging in a lot of sentimental drip...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Power for the People | 2/10/1979 | See Source »

With hockey on the verge of ECAC extinction, basketball in pursuit of a record 13-game losing streak and women's swimming wondering where all the swimmers have gone, first semester results brought tears to the eyes of players and nausea to the stomachs of fans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Second Season' Tips Off Amid Gloom | 1/31/1979 | See Source »

...quite literally, that a quake is in the air. His theory: before the major shock hits, the earth releases such great masses of charged particles, or ions, that the atmosphere is almost alive with electricity. Such electrostatic activity, while discomforting enough to humans (it can cause headaches, irritability and nausea), may be more irritating to the delicate senses of many animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sensing Quakes | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...year, with barely a nod to the sentimental hokum that passes for sensitivity these days. Adapted from Robert Stone's award-winning novel about bringing Vietnam home--and with it, incidentally, two kilos of heroin. The film takes off and never lets up, sometimes reaching the point of nausea. Describing an Army campaign to murder elephants suspected of being NLF symps from helicopters, Michael Moriarty as John Converse says, "In a world where flying men hunt elephants, people will just naturally want to get high...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '50s Nostalgia and '70s Paranoia | 1/11/1979 | See Source »

...Many of Joan's friends, some of whom confirm the basic facts of Christina's grim tale, are nonetheless sorry that it ended this way. "I cried when I read the book," says one of them, Screenwriter Leonard Spigelgass. "But I really cried for Joan. There is an absolute nausea among her friends in learning these things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Joan Crawford's Other Life | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

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