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Word: sickly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wacky tobaccy," gazing out at the rolling Appalachian farmland. Brad Sr. sits at the center of a Last Supper tableau of thieves, looking like Jesus looking for Judas. Every overwrought gesture, every pregnant banality, every brutal killing is elongated to impress upon us the moment's importance and sick beauty. This fetishized attention to detail produces some gorgeous picturemaking, even as it makes At Close Range a sort of Atrocity Olympics captured in Super SloMo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Is This the Family Gun, Dad? At Close Range | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...just sense it somehow, and it's not like it's just me because everyone says that you have to be pretty desperate to go there for medical attention. Now I really know what they mean. I won't be surprised when I get sick again, because UHS will have caused it. They probably give out more diseases than they take...

Author: By Thomas A. Christenfeld, | Title: Walk-In Woes | 4/26/1986 | See Source »

...said. "I'm getting sick of it." I nodded. No, no, we'd had enough...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: ...It Had Become Pathetic | 4/18/1986 | See Source »

...practically ran away from him. He must think I'm crazy. I couldn't talk, and I ran away and started crying. I felt sick, physically sick. I feel sick now. Oh, this seems so stupid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Calling Response | 4/17/1986 | See Source »

...quietly buried at a private funeral in Liberty, Ill. "No one ever knew where he came from," says Russell Adams, a retired Pan Am vice president who occasionally dined with Doole at the International Club in Washington. "No one knew he was dying. No one even knew he was sick." Doole preferred it that way. When he entered Washington Hospital Center last year, he told his sisters back in Illinois that he was suffering from a hernia. In fact, he had terminal cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: a Spymaster Remembered | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

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