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...also had a stomach ache, but it was an emotionally satisfying pain. Think of it as advance compensation for the emotional trauma of being turned down for a job. And if that rationale doesn't suit you, I refer you to the age old maxim of desperate college students from all eras...

Author: By Daniel E. Mufson, | Title: Penury and June: Preparing for the Post-College Wasteland | 10/25/1990 | See Source »

...Flat Sousaphone, named after the distinguished composer and band master, John Philip Sousa. Had you termed the instrument a tuba, I would have been satisfied, as the distinction is not one that the uninitiated often grasp; but classification as a trombonist is more than I can reasonably stomach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trombone? | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

...long enough to allow for a U.N.-mediated cease-fire, presumably with Noriega still in power. As good as his word, Castro dispatched a sizable arsenal to Panama, including an estimated 100,000 assault rifles. What the Cuban leader did not foresee is that Noriega would have so little stomach for a prolonged fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'll Hold Your Coat . . . Manny? | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

...sharpness of the juts. Juts-tapositioning oneself," she says. "I always wanted to blunt and blur what was painful. My idea was pain reduction and mind expansion, but I ended up with mind reduction and pain expansion." Her excesses eventually landed her in a hospital emergency ward, having her stomach pumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIE FISHER: A Spy In Her Own House | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

...body of CBS correspondent George Polk washed up in Salonika bay, his hands and feet bound with rope, a bullet hole in the back of his head. The Greek pathologist who conducted the autopsy on the 34-year- old journalist found 3 lbs. of undigested lobster in his stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unquiet Grave | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

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