Word: stomachics
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...even completed Anne Rice's The Vampire Armand before I had to push the book away as you might do to a meal you've started and are too full to finish. Several times I sat back in my chair with a full stomach and sighed gustily, and yet I wouldn't call the feeling one of satisfaction. It was, in fact, reminiscent of eating an entire chocolate cake, followed not by an expected satiety but rather by a too-sweet nausea. The Vampire Armand is such a dessert, so rich that one bite is an indulgence...
...Rice is in her sexual descriptions and as cheerfully dirty-minded as I am, however, I'm convinced that it was the baths between Marius and Armand, the sadomasochistic romps and the vampire-mortal orgy that made me put this book down numerous times with a pitching in my stomach. And yet, as you may be thinking, I returned to it, only to leave with the same results. Why? Simply put, it was fun. I devoured Armand and the sexual luxury that made it the dessert I previously described it to be. Though I knew I would come away disgusted...
...AIDS solutions; it sabotages more of HIV?s machinery for penetrating the body?s cells. That?s important, because HIV is a tricky, genetically unstable little customer. The bad news: T-20 has to be injected, not swallowed as a pill, which suggests the drug gets destroyed by the stomach. "That?s not going to be very convenient," warns Gorman. We?ll find out more in the next round of testing -- but don?t hold your breath for the cure...
...should not surprise audiences of Crimes of the Heart to learn that Babe Botrelle did not kill her husband when she shot him (she aimed for his heart but hit his stomach): she's a good Southern woman, after all, and among the other myths she heard about men and women, she undoubtedly learned that "the only way to a man's heart is through his stomach...
...when Collins again broke through and scooted a lead pass to freshman forward Kate Burrage. Sensing imminent danger, DeJong left the net and raced out to intercept the pass in front of the right post. Burrage beat the keeper to the ball but buried the shot into her prone stomach...