Word: phlegm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will be imitated by Salvador Dali's, seems alert, like antennae. "It is now nine years since any ((portrait)) has been made," Philip IV noted in 1653, in the last decade of his and his painter's lives, "and I am little inclined to subject myself to Velazquez's phlegm, nor thus to find further reason to witness how I am growing older...
...juvenile delinquent, a James Dean. He turns out to be J.D., a new boy in town who is itching to make trouble (played by Christian Slater, handsomely imitating Jack Nicholson's silky menace). Veronica may want to get back at one of the nasty Heathers by dropping a phlegm glob in her morning coffee, but J.D. has bigger plans. Soon this Heather is dead, though she does reappear in a dream to whine that "my afterlife is so boring! If I have to sing Kum Ba Yah one more time . . ." Then J.D. dispatches two boorish jocks who bugged Veronica...
Fortunately, this estimate remains a matter of speculation. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki canceled Operation Olympic and delivered Fussell, reasonably intact, from his enemies. "For all the practiced phlegm of our tough facades," he writes, "we broke down and cried with relief and joy. We were going to live. We were going to grow to adulthood after...
Expecting lukewarm effervescence, my throat was searingly ambushed by a bitter rush of vodka. As phlegm and blood spewed from my esophagus, the Dinosaur guffawed at his own ingenuity. "Haaaaah, got you dude...
...Enchanter is about a middle-aged bachelor whose passion for a blithely seductive adolescent drives him to desperate, hapless schemes to gain access to her. His obsession carries him so far as to marry the child's unappetizing mother and to put up daily with her drabness and phlegm...