Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They're booing me in the Bronx. Soon, the major New York newspapers will have my face sprawled on the back of their sports pages with the headline, "This Guy Must Be Sick...
...tell you, doc, I'm sick. There must be a cure...
...back to the Stadium and have to read another two-sentence story on the Yankees-Tigers series, then I wouldn't mind staying sick...
...Carolina). Helms is the biggest opponent of civil rights in the Senate, and the strongest backer of (anti-family?) government handouts to (anti-moral?) tobacco producers, a fact Biblical Scoreboard never reveals. The magazine also doesn't mention Helms' record of opposing programs which help the poor and the sick...
...this renewed season of diet vows and basking on the beach, two provocative new books take out after the often maniacal American pursuit of health and the perfect physique. Professor Barsky's book, Worried Sick: Our Troubled Quest for Wellness (Little, Brown; 266 pages; $17.95), charges that Americans "don't live exuberantly but apprehensively, as if our bodies are dormant adversaries, programmed for betrayal at any moment." Another broadside comes from University of Connecticut Sociologist Barry Glassner in Bodies: Why We Look the Way We Do (And How We Feel About It) (Putnam; 288 pages; $19.95). Glassner takes America...