Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Randy McGrorty (Billing) overdevelops. Although his portrayal is uproariously satiric, he effects the level of uproar to an extravagant degree--a degree even satire cannot stomach. Jody Barrett (Hovstadt), while an excellent actress, occasionally applies histrionics and melodrama to cautious scenes, underrating the dramatic ones...
...directing Shaw's Saint Joan came up to me and said, I want you to do this,' and I said, 'Sure.' The first thing I saw in the script was that my character was supposed to be weeping offstage. The muscles contracted in my stomach, and immediately I tried to figure out some way to play the whole thing facing upstage. And then I thought, 'What an ass. I drag my family with only $900 in the bank all the way to Connecticut and then think of all the ways...
...retrieved it five months later. Duran, after shivering all his great lightweight career in the shade of Muhammad Ali's shadow, came into the spotlight as if out of a cave and was greeted by an Ali just his size. He rubbed his eyes. Later he rubbed his stomach. When Duran quit in the eighth round of the return match, a Leonard tour de force, nobody could believe either the alibi-the little wolf had wolfed down too much lunch-or the truth: an uncivilized man took a civilized...
Some physical disorders appear to be linked to an imbalance of prostaglandins. Too little of a type that regulates gastric acid and protects the stomach lining has a role in the development of ulcers. Too much of a PG that causes uterine contraction may provoke menstrual cramps. Other PGs play a part in arthritis, while leukotrienes, PG-related compounds identified by Samuelsson, are implicated in asthma...
...nightmare, the most routine, innocent action-reaching for a painkiller to relieve a headache, cold or upset stomach, something that Americans do millions of times every day-had become fraught with menace. Suddenly one of the small bonds of unconscious trust that hold society together had snapped: people could not look at the ubiquitous bottles of pills on their medicine shelves in quite the same way again (see ESSAY...