Word: spasticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Being athletic, in the opinion of some, also doesn't seem to matter. "It's a good sport because you can play if you're spastic; I haven't found it too difficult. It keeps people off the streets," sophomore novice Jay Berinstein concluded...
...which Mary's share was $120,000. After a year of five-or six-day binges followed by several days of sleep and then more binges, Mary had run through most of the inheritance, lost 20 Ibs. and, in her rundown condition, developed back pains and a spastic colon...
...Lace Sleeves," about thinking the world is what they say it is in movies or in the paper, and finding out it's all a sordid, ugly sham, the way Elvis did when all those record executives refused to look beyond his slightly spastic exterior--"Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere." The world sullied Elvis's new lace sleeves a long time ago and he still hasn't gotten over it: the song is like a river of tears, and Elvis's vocal is the most expressive of his career, choked yet fluent, cynical yet deeply innocent...
...bright little guy, you catch things other people miss altogether. You look out of those eyes, and what do you see? A sick world... A chaotic world, spastic, anarchic, deity-deficient. People tell you you've got a future, but the only future you can count on starts six feet under...