Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...frames, even the American flag--is a grim steel gray. He doesn't soften the melodramatic excesses, yet he emphasizes the metaphorical overtones. There are references to Mussolini and Hitler ("that monkey with the trick mustache"); a Jewish convict laments, "I come of a people that are used to suffer"; and the harrowing scenes in the prison's steamy torture chamber are an eerie foreshadowing of Auschwitz...
...similar leap of illogic assumes that because women in the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Sweden consume lots of milk and also suffer high rates of breast cancer, the former must cause the latter. Another clunker is Cohen's claim that widespread lactose intolerance--the inability to digest dairy products--means milk is of little use as a source of calcium. In fact, many cases of lactose intolerance are mild and interfere only slightly with calcium uptake. Many people intolerant of milk can easily digest yogurt. And lactase tablets can make dairy products digestible even in severe cases...
...lovastatin worthwhile for someone like me? It probably would help me live longer, but there's as yet no direct evidence of that or of how much longer. It might turn out that I'd spend a lot of money and suffer side effects in order to add a few months to my life. And if I could lower my cholesterol just by popping a pill, I might be tempted to order that bacon cheeseburger and to sleep in rather than exercise before work, thus negating the drug's benefits...
...John Coltrane." Still, like flight simulators that let you pilot a jumbo jet, Harmonix's music simulator, he says, "takes the hard part away from music, the mechanical part. We're giving you the fun of it without having to work for it." Who says you have to suffer if you want to sing the blues...
...commission had been created four years earlier but saw its credibility suffer through crises in Rwanda...