Word: sicked
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...terribly swollen glands," she says. "I couldn't swallow, couldn't eat, I don't remember ever being so sick...
...with colitis at the same time that her close friend, Leland, was dying of AIDS. For both of them, watching television and classic films served as therapy. As Braderman says, "movie stars dominated our mental life, images became medicine" as they were set free in a "world without sick bodies...
...most people who have been sick for an extended period of time, and have been entertained and relieved by watching a constant stream of television and movies, this section will ring true. My father, for instance, when severely ill like Braderman, escaped from illness into a world of Audrey Hepburn classics and "The Fugitive" reruns...
...Asians as a group are quietly and stubbornly making headway, what's so wrong with being "apathetic," especially if it allows us to keep our forebears' hard-won gains? If being quiet wins us support from students and administrators who are sick and tired of being called "insensitive to minority concerns," then maybe the old adage is true: silence is golden...
...genre's more gothic cases include that of an Atlanta woman who smothered four of her children, one each time her husband threatened to leave her. Her behavior has been ascribed to Munchausen's syndrome by proxy, in which mothers secretly make their children sick to win attention. Originally the authorities had concluded that the deaths were caused by SIDS...