Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...schedules five hours of preschool TV each weekday; and PBS has the Muppet-like Wimzie's House and, coming in the spring, Teletubbies. A huge hit in England, Teletubbies stars four beings who seem to be made out of terry cloth and who all have TV screens in their stomach. Well, it's the English--they also love marmite and Oasis...
...Physical symptoms like persistent headaches or stomach aches...
...they call themselves, report that doctors and other medical personnel routinely leer at or ridicule the inert bodies before them. Jeanette Tracy, a television producer from Dallas, suffered this when she was anesthetized for a hernia operation in 1991. Enduring pain she describes as "a blow torch in my stomach...every tissue tearing like a piece of paper," she heard the anesthesiologist say she had "the right size breasts" and was in "great shape" for a mother of two. "You can't cover yourself," she says furiously. "You're screaming as loud as you can inside your head...
Since Kirby Dick's Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist displays all of its subject's creative carpentry skills, it is not for the faint of stomach. (When the song The Hammer of Love starts playing, go out for popcorn.) But like the 1994 Crumb, this deadpan documentary transcends its sensational topic. Flanagan's artful self-mutilation, and especially his corrosively comic descriptions of it, amounted to a heroic decision to take the punishment that God or nature meted out to him into his own hands...
...this Georgia town, food scientist Michael Doyle looked inside a cow's stomach for a way to kill E. coli 0157:H7, the mutant microbe blamed in the recall of 25 million pounds of ground beef over the summer...