Word: stomachics
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...those who see the Silkwood saga as a puzzling mystery story, the current trial has been so narrowed that it may not answer some of the most perplexing questions of the case. It will not try to resolve whether Silkwood was so tranquilized by pills to calm a nervous stomach, as Oklahoma state police contend, that she ran off the left side of the highway. It will not decide whether, as a union investigation claims, the fresh marks on her car's rear bumper were evidence that she had been forced off the road. It may not explain...
...particularly violent, and what violence there is is curiously abstract and unemotional. More gore can often be seen on the television screen, and any number of films-Marathon Man, Death Wish, just about any Peckinpah film and certainly A Clockwork Orange-have contained far more stomach-churning brutality. Indeed, The Warriors' director, Walter Hill, goes out of his way to expunge any feeling of genuine menace or racial animosity. The gang called the Warriors is integrated; there are no scenes of sexual assault, so typical of this kind of film, and there is no attempt to scorn or bait...
...there is a waste of talent," says Ed Montanus, president of MGM television (How the West Was Won, CHiPs). "Some of the really good writers and producers are becoming disillusioned and moving out. We're working in a Barnum & Bailey atmosphere, and the guy with the strongest stomach is going...
Seven hours after the end of the match Jim Curley said "my stomach still turns...
...that Schramm would hit his head and left shoulder blade on the board during his final tune-up session Wednesday. Undaunted, the Westfield, N.J., junior took to the board the next day wearing a bathing cap to protect his bandage and eight stitches. Despite the injuries and a stomach virus, the end of the 11-dive contest found only three-time defending champion Paul Steck standing between Schramm and the gold medal...