Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...baker nor a candlestick maker. I do joint ventures with the entertainment industry. I'm a member of the Screen Actors Guild. I wrote a screenplay. I've got a horrendous project involving the integration of entertainment with education. You want to call me a consultant? Will your stomach settle? Okay, I'm a consultant. But really I do whatever the Sam Hill I want to." Lately he has been involved in something called Pro Per Inc., + which is "attempting to de-lawyer and re-people the American court system by encouraging Americans to represent themselves in court." And there...
...film Alien Prey features a bloodstained vampire who feasts on a dead woman's entrails through a hole in her stomach. Make Them Die Slowly proudly proclaims 24 SCENES OF BARBARIC TORTURE, including a scene in which a man slices a woman in half. Flesh Feast reveals "body maggots" that consume live human beings, pulling the skin off their faces before working their way down...
...stroke and two senior citizens with cancer, most of the protagonists in this collection of short stories suffer from Updike's disease. By now readers should be familiar with the symptoms: a wistful feeling of dislocation from the things and relationships of routine life, and chronic elevator stomach, as if the Fall from Grace were a perpetual state of being. Updike's afflicted are invariably middle-aged, middle-class males who, with their wives, ex-wives, mistresses, natural and acquired children, seem to inhabit a blue version of the Lands' End catalog. Alcohol abuse, infidelity and a numbing lack...
...Here!" my editor said, ramming a book into my stomach that couldn't have weighed more than 25 pounds. "Review this by tommorrow. You've got a whole page to yourself. I'd talk to you about it, only I have to go feed my editorial assistant." As she went off shouting "Igor! Din-din!" I picked myself off the floor and looked at the book it was my fate to review. The Norton Anthology of Pretentious Literature proclaimed the dust-jacket. I read the description on the inside cover...
...investigators focused on changes between 1950 and 1982 in the five- year survival rates for victims of twelve types of cancer. Advances in detection and treatment, they conceded, had resulted in improvements in these survival rates (measured from the time of diagnosis), except for stomach cancer. Yet they criticized the NCI's reliance on these rates as proof of gains against cancer, noting that some types of the disease, such as breast and prostate cancers, can progress for ten or 15 years before proving fatal. Also, the GAO observed, survival rates reveal nothing about the life expectancy or quality...