Word: sternum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Portnoy wears his Oedipus complex as if it were a festering good-conduct medal that had been stapled to his sternum. But his is a tragedy in which Oedipus is played by Groucho Marx. Mother Portnoy is a vibrant orange-haired vision who has never given up trying to smother her son in the warm pudding of her ample bosom. She surpasses the grotesque stereotype simply because Roth plays her absolutely straight, making her totally and comically unconscious of the unconscious...
Besides Padlack at 157, Lee has John Adams, John Woodman, and Guy Rowley. He lost a fifth man, Ed Cavin with a cracked sternum. Now he has to juggle the remaining four between 157 and 191. Obviously, whoever wrestles 191 is badly outsized...
Urban has developed a surgical technique that goes farther than the conventional radical mastectomy. Since a set of lymph nodes lying near the sternum (breastbone) also acts as a reservoir for cancer cells, he removes, in appropriate cases, a thick section of chest in which these internal lymph nodes are embedded. Taken out are layers of skin, muscle and bone, and this creates a window near the center of the chest...
...bearings, raids his own trench, and kidnaps his colonel. Bandy needs all of his Christian resolve to avoid being seduced by a pillow-breasted wench: "She clutched her arms around my head, burying my face even deeper in her bosom until my nose was bent almost double against her sternum and her nipples were stuck in my earholes like a stethoscope...