Word: oxygenation
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Nevertheless, the slow, deliberate pace of the movie leaves one gasping for oxygen. The whimsical intellectuality of the movie rapidly becomes cloying. The mystery's conclusion--where the last piece in the puzzle is fit into place--is a little too cleverly predictable. Through hypnosis, Freud finds that the secret of Holmes' personality and the reason for his cocaine addiction is explained by a childhood trauma. What else could one expect in a movie about Freud as precious as this one has become, but a reenactment of the Oedipal drama...
...football career. He was a large man, six feet four and over two hundred pounds, nicknamed "The Big Swede," and his playing ability earned him a spot on Walter Camp's Second Team All American Squad. My brothers and I learned this all secondhand; my grandfather died in an oxygen tent fighting pneumonia, his body ravaged by time and too much alcohol, when my father was still a young man. By all accounts, he led an active and unusual life: prospecting in the Far West, hunting trips in Canada, a lucrative law practice in Boston and New York, the summer...
McFarland was one of the first researchers to show how lack of oxygen could impair the sensory perception and mental functioning of pilots and mountaineers...
Much of McFarland's work dealt with the effects of diminished oxygen supply on the central nervous system, especially in the field of vision, and with the process of again. His theory relating the sensory and mental changes of aging to alterations in the oxygenation of body tissues has been widely accepted...
...guardrail. His car burst into flames, searing his lungs with intense heat and poisonous flames from the volatile fuel. Unable to trigger the car's fire extinguisher, Lauda lay trapped while three fellow drivers struggled to free him. His face and head were badly burned and disfigured, the oxygen count in his blood fell below the level necessary, in theory at least, to sustain life...