Word: stomachal
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...felt he was lionized for the wrong reasons. "One has never seen such a mania for the invisible," he jotted grumpily, "such exclusive addictions to dream, mystery, mysticism, symbolism and the undefined." Under the circumstances it seems ironically right that three-quarters of a century after he died of stomach cancer in Paris, Moreau should now be having his first American retrospective in that breeding pool of every psychic fad, Southern California. Composed of 88 oils, water-colors and drawings, it has been assembled by Art Historian Julius Kaplan for the Los Angeles County Museum...
...attorney, and later as state attorney general, Warren was a zealous law-and-order prosecutor, but he also had a scrupulous regard for the rights of the prosecuted. "I never heard a jury bring in a verdict of guilty but that I felt sick at the pit of my stomach," he admitted...
...factory for a job interview. Inside a doctor's office for a medical examination, she and another, younger, woman stand stripped and defenseless as they suffer the mindless prods of an unctuous company doctor. Her eyes fill with tears when the doctor notices the scars of childbirth on her stomach and notifies her that they want only unmarried women for the job. She rejoins her husband outside and the two walk back slowly in the direction from which they came...
More than anything, it is a temporary way out of news that is always bad. The World Cup this summer has made it easier to stomach inflation and the defections of the politicians. Whether it is right in terms of the potential!ties of the human soul for people to think more of the kicking around of a chunk of leather than of Hamlet and Bach's B Minor Mass is a question best not argued. The Fussballweltmeisterschaft has brought nations together in unlethal rivalry, and that cannot well be shrugged off as a lot of fussball about nothing...
Mezvinsky ponders it all in his cramped office. Sometimes the outside world intrudes and it shocks him. He went to his daughter's fifth-grade class to talk, and the first question was "Should the President be impeached?" The 150 kids broke into cheers. The reaction made his stomach knot up. Out in Iowa a while back, a 70-year-old lady looked him in the eye and said, "I'm glad I don't have long to live because there really isn't much to live for." That stunned...